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?
00:05:07 More than 14 means two tables.
00:08:20 To spend Christmas with my 3 daughters.
00:11:05 You don't mind?
00:17:21 Still, not a word in the papers.
00:19:59 Did you?
00:23:46 I'm feeling down, too.
00:27:45 Were you at the funeral?
00:30:54 Cheese and bread, too.
00:35:45 But you didn't do it.
00:41:41 What a musician...
00:48:42 You're right. I won't.
00:55:44 I live here.
00:59:20 Want some?
01:03:36 I almost died last night.
01:06:15 I'll go first...
01:09:28 rich...
01:12:59 He was always at the house.
01:15:58 He'd try everything.
01:19:03 Going to Levallois?
01:21:48 The two of us form a couple. We talk, laugh, and make love.
01:25:29 You hate kids.
01:28:58 You'll ruin Christmas for them forever.
01:33:17 You want a clear conscience? It's too late.