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Season's Beatings

Season's Beatings

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 24, 1999

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

59%

Original Title

La Bûche

Production Companies

Pathé Distribution, Les Films Alain Sarde, Studio Images 6, TF1 Films Production, Canal+

Director

Danièle Thompson

Description

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?