Un conte de Noël
In collaboration with the Festival CINEMANIA, we are showcasing four fiction films that delve into France's rich history and heritage. Each film also features a female protagonist at the heart of its narrative.
In the presence of the director
A family meets around Christmas and the mother's illness, who needs a transplant. Henri, the lost, eccentric, unhappy son, was banished from the family several years earlier by his sister. Yet, he also shows up at the family reunion. He has always had a complicated and suffering relationship with his mother. Things degenerate into a burlesque, tragic and saving catharsis.
Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin (born 31 October 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. Desplechin's first feature-length movie, The Sentinel, premiered in 1992 at Cannes, starring Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, and Lászlo Szabó. Desplechin's 1996 film My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument was critically successful. In 2000, Desplechin made his first English-language film, Esther Kahn, adapted from a short story by Arthur Symons, and starred Summer Phoenix in the title role. The film was seen as a homage to François Truffaut's work. In 2019 film Oh Mercy! was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival constituting his seventh film selected in the main competition.
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