A scene from the film

Christmas Tale is surely going to be one of the flamboyant yet infuriating adaptations of the ongoing ‘family coming to the home during Christmas’ theme. A Christmas Tale has surfaced online via Indiwire who have also got their hands on an interview with director. We would like to showcase some excerpts from the interview and also the clips which we got via Spout.

Many of the critics have really enjoyed this movie A.O Scott said that it filled him with unadulterated joy. “Unexpected but still made squarely in the French humanist tradition, this is a film you don’t want to see end, not because the people are so happy but because they are so human and so alive,” wrote the Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth Turan.

The film centers on a dysfunctional bourgeoisie family that heads home for Christmas. The characters are really difficult on each other. The film is akin to another film that got released last Margot At the Wedding. Most of the characters in the film are really troubled. The film is headlined with Mathieu Almaric, Catherine Deneuve and her lovely daughter played by Chiara Mastroianni.

The director was really clear about what he wanted the audience to feel. “Each time I’m starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare… As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.”

There was also the beautiful observation he had regarding family. There is a certain madness that exists that keeps everything intact within a family. So this is something the director worked hard to recreate with the blessed cast. It has also been sort of a trilogy of films the director has chosen to shoot in the city of Roubaix.

You can read the rest of the interview over here.

Here is the clip

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