9 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Very confusing

A Customer from UK, 16th June, 2009

Very disjointed story line. Very little explanation as to why people behaviour the way they do. No sympathetic characters. Got boring.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Unforgiveably dull

hardpressedmother from , 19th September, 2009

This has all the ingredients to make an intriguing film, a medical dilemma within a family - which member of a large, clever, volatile family can save the matriarch, Junon, (Deneuve) by donating bone marrow and in addition a whole family history to unravel in the luxurious 2 and a half hours running time. But it has been written as a comedy, sort of, so the pathos is taken away immediately. There is reality in the love hate feelings in a family going back to events long, long ago and there are true moments such as the drunken, black sheep brother (Almeric, superb as ever) upsetting everyone as soon as he enters the house. Yes, the familiar family strife tableaux ring true but it is still dull, dull, dull. Which is a shame because it could have been a great drama. One of the problems is that the Deneuve character is cold and unsympathetic. She is complex also but we don't care. There is subtlety in some of the perfomances, the father Abel is particularly convincing as the amiable, loving father and there are lots of emotional scenes and events but I was willing it to end unfortunately.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

a christmas tale

dondonshannah from from scotland, 15th January, 2010

I will have to say i put this on and feel asleep, not that its a bad film i just got bored reading subtitles while watching the film, not my cup of tea. try it what i seen was good.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Don't bother

cadykeni from from London, 23rd November, 2009

The idea is good but is lost in the on going of the film. I slept through most of it. They call it 'art' I suppose but really I don't get it.

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why did i see this?

Milman from , 10th March, 2010

I'm honestly not sure why I saw this. Stuff happened, pretty serious stuff if you regard bone marrow transplants as being serious, and yet the director has extracted any sense of engagement and empathy out of the piece. So there we go: I watched some things go on and then stopped. And thats it.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Not so good

A Customer from Edinburgh, 11th October, 2009

I expected an interesting film considering the cast and the story, but it lacked sparkle, dialogues were rather boring at times, and the actress who plays the sister really annoyed me.

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