A Christmas tale : Conte de Noël

Resource Information

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Label

A Christmas tale : Conte de Noël

Title remainder

Conte de Noël

Statement of responsibility

IFC Films ; Why Not Productions ; producer, Pascal Caucheteux ; screenplay by Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu ; directed by Arnaud Desplechin

Title variation

Conte de Noël

Contributor

• Poupaud, Melvil
• Berling, Emile
• Desplechin, Arnaud
• Consigny, Anne
• Girardot, Hippolyte, 1955-
• Amalric, Mathieu, 1965-
• Mastroianni, Chiara, 1972-
• IFC Films
• Capelluto, Laurent
• Devos, Emmanuelle
• Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-
• Bourdieu, Emmanuel
• Why Not Productions Inc
• Hetzel, Grégoire
• Roussillon, Jean-Paul
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Caucheteux, Pascal

Subject

• Mother and child -- France -- Drama
• Families -- France -- Drama
• Feature films
• Bone marrow -- Transplantation -- France -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Matriarchy -- France -- Drama
• Christmas -- France -- Drama
• Alienation (Social psychology) -- France -- Drama
• Family reunions -- France -- Drama
• trueForeign films

Genre

• Feature films
• Comedy films
• trueDrama
• Foreign films

Language

• fre
• eng
• fre
• fre

Summary

Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their family

Member of

• Criterion collection, 492

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Cinematography, Eric Gautier ; editor, Laurence Briaud ; music, Grégoire Hetzel ; costume designer, Nathalie Raoul ; production designer, Dan Bevan

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

Language track in French, with English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.C47 2009

PerformerNote

Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anee Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni, Emile Berling, Hippolyte Girardot, Laurent Capelluto

Runtime

152

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

492

Target audience

general

Technique

live action