Un conte de Noël

by Arnaud Desplechin

2008
150 min
Feature film
Color

Hors compétition 2015

The programmer’s eye

Abel and Junon had two children, Joseph and Elizabeth. But Joseph, suffering from a rare genetic disease, needed a transplant. Elizabeth being uncompatible, her parents had a third child, Henri. But the transplant didn’t work and Joseph died when he was seven. Four decades later, infuriated with her brother’s excesses, Elizabeth banned Henri. But this Christmas, the family is reunited for the first time. A beautiful family portrait, as generous as a Christmas feast, where one can find melodrama, humor, dark moods and changes of tone with an everlasting appetite.

Biography and Filmography

by Arnaud Desplechin