Cannes Review: Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale)
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Arnaud Desplechin's film Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale) , playing in competition here at Cannes, is a tragically comic tale of love, death, and familial strife and forgiveness. The film centers around Junon ( Catherine Deneuve ) and her husband Abel ( Jean-Paul Roussillon ), whose oldest child, Joseph, is diagnosed at a young age with Burkitt's lymphoma.
The boy's disease is ...
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Cannes: Vendredi, 16 Mai
Published 5/17/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... Kim Voynar, “”This could have been an emotionally wrenching film, but Desplechin keeps the tone light, infusing the drama with humor in the most unexpected places, and offers Henri’s girlfriend, Faunia (frequent Desplechin actress Emmanuelle Devos), as the amused Shakespearean witness to the whole affair to lighten the heavy load,” ...
