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Catherine Deneuve's seasoned serenity

November 16 06:05:02 AM,

In "Christmas Tale," Deneuve is philosophically cool. In "A Christmas Tale," French director Arnaud Desplechin's bittersweet deconstruction of the home-for-the-holidays drama, Catherine Deneuve plays the hands-off matriarch Junon, who may not live to say "Joyeux Noël" again. She and her husband (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are used to crises. They lost the first of their three sons in infancy. More recently, their playwright daughter spitefully banished the elder of her two brothers, Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who had produced her plays in a theater he'd bought on debt. And sadly, the blood cancer that killed Junon's baby will now kill her unless she receives a bone marrow transplant.

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