Release Date

24 Nov, 1999

Runtime

01:46: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

'Tis the Season to be Jolly!

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?

Original Title

La Bûche

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Actors

Sabine Azéma

Emmanuelle Béart

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Claude Rich

Françoise Fabian

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Isabelle Carré

Samuel Labarthe

Marie de Villepin

Crew

Danièle Thompson

Christopher Thompson

Danièle Thompson

Alain Sarde

Christine Gozlan

Michel Legrand

Robert Fraisse

Emmanuelle Castro

Michèle Abbé-Vannier

Marie-Hélène Sulmoni

Elisabeth Tavernier

Liliane Rametta

Jacques Descomps

Thomas Desjonquères