A Christmas Tale @ The Hipp Cinema Jan 23 - 29

A Christmas Tale

(aka Un conte de Noël)

January 23rd - January 29th

Golden Palm Nomination, Cannes Film Festival
Prix d'Excellence Nomination, European Film Awards
Best Actress Nomination, Satellite Awards

"If Ingmar Bergman and Wes Anderson some how collaborated on a movie together, I'd guess their sensibilities would yield something like Arnaud Desplechin's darkly hilarious, brilliantly acted A Christmas Tale." — NY Post

"Roiling with laughter, tears, drunken confessions, revelatory soliloquies, pain, sorrow, hospital visits, and various kinds of love, A Christmas Tale is a smart, sprawling, and sublimely entertaining feast." — Philadephia Inquirer

Masterfully directed and acted, by turns savage, bittersweet, darkly comic and unbearably moving, A Christmas Tale shows internationally acclaimed director Desplechin at the height of his powers. For some, Christmas means the joy of spending time with loved ones. But not for the Vuillard family in this blackly comic film. Instead of egg nog, bile and venom flow at the family get-together when estranged son Henri (Mathieu Amalric, QUANTUM OF SOLACE) returns. His mother, Junon (French legend Catherine Deneuve), has cancer, and Henri may be the bone marrow donor match that could save her life. Oldest daughter Elizabeth is equally unhappy to see her brother; he has been an emotional and financial drain on the family, and she had him legally banished from the family six years ago. But with his return, old wounds are freshly opened as the entire family gathers together for what could be their last holiday. This French film easily moves between the audience between laughter, gasps, and tears. The behavior of the Vuillard famille is atrocious at times, and it goes beyond just the awful--and sometimes awfully funny--things they say to one another. It's not destined to be a feel-good holiday classic à la IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, but A CHRISTMAS TALE may prove a perfect prescription for when viewers' families get to be a little too much. 2008/ 152mins/ French/ subt/ NR
[Watch the trailer]

Showtimes

Fri (1/23):
6:00 & 8:45pm

Sat (1/24):
2:00, 5:00 & 8:00pm

Sun (1/25):
2:15, 5:00 & 8:00pm

Wed (1/28):
4:30, 6:45 & 9:00pm

Thu (1/29):
6:00 & 8:45pm