Season's Beatings (1999)
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?
Director: Danièle Thompson
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Sabine Azéma as Louba |
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Emmanuelle Béart as Sonia |
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Charlotte Gainsbourg as Milla Robin |
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Claude Rich as Stanislas |
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Françoise Fabian as Yvette |
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Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Gilbert |
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Isabelle Carré as Annabelle |
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Samuel Labarthe as Pierre |
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Marie de Villepin as Marie |
| Directing | Danièle Thompson | Director |
| Writing | Christopher Thompson | Writer |
| Writing | Danièle Thompson | Writer |
| Production | Alain Sarde | Producer |
| Production | Christine Gozlan | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Michel Legrand | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Robert Fraisse | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Emmanuelle Castro | Editor |
| Art | Michèle Abbé-Vannier | Production Design |
| Art | Marie-Hélène Sulmoni | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elisabeth Tavernier | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Liliane Rametta | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Jacques Descomps | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Thomas Desjonquères | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Jean-Pierre Duret | Sound |
| Sound | William Flageollet | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
