Season's Beatings
“'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?
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Cast
9 people
Sabine Azéma
Louba
Known for
Tanguy
R.A.I.D. Special Unit
Emmanuelle Béart
Sonia
Known for
Mission: Impossible
Torment
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Milla Robin
Known for
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
Melancholia
Claude Rich
Stanislas
Known for
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Oscar
Françoise Fabian
Yvette
Known for
Me, Myself and Mum
What's in a Name
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Gilbert
Known for
22 Bullets
The Bureau
Isabelle Carré
Annabelle
Known for
Romantics Anonymous
Delicious
Samuel Labarthe
Pierre
Known for
The Forest
Notre-Dame on Fire
Marie de Villepin
Marie
Known for
Yves Saint Laurent
Danièle Thompson Director · Christopher Thompson Writer Michel Legrand Composer
Worldwide gross $23M · Budget $8.4M · United States release December 20, 1999
Box office
Budget
$8,400,000
Worldwide gross
$22,700,000
Gross vs. budget
2.7×
Production
Les Films Alain Sarde
Production
TF1 Films Production
Production
StudioCanal
Studio
Pathé Distribution
Production
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Production
France
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Languages
Original title
La Bûche
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French · Russian
Release dates
France · November 24, 1999
Theatrical
United States · December 20, 1999
Theatrical
France
September 11, 2001 · Physical
January 1, 2007 · Digital
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