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Season's Beatings(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-11-24
59%
85 Votes
Time: 1h 46m
'Tis the Season to be Jolly!
Overview:
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?
Languages: French, English, Russian.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
Les Films Alain Sarde
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Movie: Season's Beatings
Top 9 Billed Cast
Sabine Azéma
Louba
Emmanuelle Béart
Sonia
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Milla Robin
Claude Rich
Stanislas
Françoise Fabian
Yvette
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Gilbert
Isabelle Carré
Annabelle
Samuel Labarthe
Pierre
Marie de Villepin
Marie
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Overview
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?
Release Date
1999-11-24
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'Tis the Season to be Jolly!
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