Genres
Production Companies
Les Films Alain Sarde
Studio Images 6
TF1 Films Production
Canal+
Season's Beatings (La Bûche)
'Tis the Season to be Jolly!
Overview
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?
Key Crew
Director: Danièle Thompson
Writer: Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson
Director of Photography: Robert Fraisse
Producer: Alain Sarde
