A Tale of Christmas: simply remarkable.

A Tale of Christmas, Arnaud Desplechin, said the return home of a man banished from the family home. For many, the approach of Christmas is a period where we would disappear as the idea of being Family (worse, in her in-laws!) Also seems pleasant than to climb the scaffold. Imagine if you were banished clan by your sister and your mother suffers from a rare form of cancer ... That is not what prevents Henri Vuillard (Mathieu Amalric, sublime) to return to conqueror at the family home at arm Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos, delicious), which looks amused and critical about this dysfunctional matriarchy where there Juno (Imperial Catherine Deneuve), more interested in her good husband Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon, adorable) that their children Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and Ivan (Melvil Poupaud). For us the mythology of this irresistibly funny and endearing tribe, marked by the death in infancy of the oldest, Arnaud Desplechin has chosen the form of a story illustrated with shadows. This lovely original narrative process is not only employed by the brilliant filmmaker. Therefore, please speak to the characters facing camera, like the scene where Juno visits the home viewer and wink to the Kings and Queen where Henry wrote to his sister. More than staging flexible draw full benefit of the majestic home of Vuillard is the scenario Desplechin, co-authored with Emmanuel Bourdieu, full of tasty replicas to the tart humor that runs to the wonderful mouth distribution, which will delight the ear as well as the mind. With a feint lightness, and Bourdieu Desplechin shell the tensions between family members over a period of an artificial hand - ah! meetings mandatory Christmas! - Secondly agonizing, Juno to choose which of Henry or his small-suicidal son (Emile Berling, fragile hope) will be the donor bone marrow. At the same time, the confidences of the companion of the late grandmother (Françoise Bertin) will revolutionize the step-wise daughter of Juno (Chiara Mastroianni, moving). Perfectly reflecting the urgency in which the characters are immersed in their protest, who will face their own through, A Christmas story is a remarkable radiography of the human soul. Moreover, without doubt one of the greatest odes to the family views the film.