Season's Beatings
1999 · 106 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 1,901 VOTES · DIR. Danièle Thompson
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?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,420 lines
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00:01:40 Did you see Portier?
00:05:11 Or else a buffet.
00:08:36 "You think I'm a bourgeois bitch, but I'm tolerant!"
00:11:49 For once, we opened the presents before dinner.
00:17:40 I hate that thing.
00:20:54 I don't like taramosalata.
00:24:18 Nothing.
00:28:17 Is the tea hot?
00:31:45 What is it?
00:37:06 no longer came from Santa, but from "your father".
00:44:06 Key chains!
00:51:56 A kid on the sly is still a kid.
00:57:01 In Marseilles with her mother.
01:00:49 Are you two in a fight?
01:04:45 Joseph.
01:07:51 He pretends he doesn't know she knows.
01:10:53 Dad wrote out a check for the woman.
01:14:07 We were in love.
01:17:16 I had one thing in mind: go to Dad's, forget about Christmas...
01:20:40 I look different with wet hair.
01:24:07 I ate something that went bad.
01:27:18 I was, too.
01:31:23 He has to know.
04:00:04 It's been 20 years...