Season's Beatings
(1999)
★ 5.9 IMDb · 91 votes
Year: 1999
Runtime: 106 мин
Country: France
Director: Danièle Thompson
Cast: Sabine Azéma, Эммануэль Беар, Шарлотта Генсбур, Клод Риш, Франсуаза Фабиан, Жан-Пьер Дарруссен, Изабель Карре, Самюэль Лабарт, Marie de Villepin
Plot
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?