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Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband (Hippolyte Girardot) and a tortured teenage son, Paul (Emile Berling); Henri (Mathieu Amalric), the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia (Chiara Mastroianni) and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth - Joseph, the eldest - died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone - including lovesick cousin Simon (Laurent Capelluto) and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos) - return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly - and hilariously - devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Original Release
05/21/2008
US Release
11/14/2008
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Catherine Deneuve | Junon Vuillard / Junon |
Jean-Paul Roussillon | Abel - Junon's husband / Abel, Junon's husband |
Anne Consigny | Elizabeth Dédalus - Abel and Junon's oldest child / Elizabeth, their oldest child |
Mathieu Amalric | Henri Vuillard - Abel and Junon's middle child / Henri, their middle child |
Chiara Mastroianni | Sylvia Vuillard - Ivan's wife / Sylvia, Ivan's wife |
Melvil Poupaud | Ivan Vuillard - - Abel and Junon's youngest child / Ivan, their youngest child |
Emmanuelle Devos | Faunia - Henri's lover / Faunia, Henri's lover |
Hippolyte Girardot | Claude Dédalus- Elizabeth's husband / Claude, Elizabeth's husband |
Laurent Capelluto | Simon - Junon's nephew - the painter cousin / Simon, Junon's nephew - the painter cousin |
Emile Berling | Paul Dédalus - Elizabeth and Claude's son / Paull, Elizabeth and Claude's son |
Directors
Writers
Jean-Pierre Jouet, Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Jacques Asher
Cast
Name | Character |
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Catherine Deneuve | Junon Vuillard / Junon |
Jean-Paul Roussillon | Abel - Junon's husband / Abel, Junon's husband |
Anne Consigny | Elizabeth Dédalus - Abel and Junon's oldest child / Elizabeth, their oldest child |
Mathieu Amalric | Henri Vuillard - Abel and Junon's middle child / Henri, their middle child |
Chiara Mastroianni | Sylvia Vuillard - Ivan's wife / Sylvia, Ivan's wife |
Melvil Poupaud | Ivan Vuillard - - Abel and Junon's youngest child / Ivan, their youngest child |
Emmanuelle Devos | Faunia - Henri's lover / Faunia, Henri's lover |
Hippolyte Girardot | Claude Dédalus- Elizabeth's husband / Claude, Elizabeth's husband |
Laurent Capelluto | Simon - Junon's nephew - the painter cousin / Simon, Junon's nephew - the painter cousin |
Emile Berling | Paul Dédalus - Elizabeth and Claude's son / Paull, Elizabeth and Claude's son |
Françoise Bertin | Rosaimée Vuillard - Abel's mother's girlfriend / Rosaimée, Abel's mother's girlfriend |
Samir Guesmi | Spatafora - the family friend at Roubaix / Spatafora, the family friend at Roubaix |
Thomas Obled | Basile 'Baz' Vuillard - Ivan and Sylvia's son / Basile, Ivan and Sylvia's son |
Clément Obled | Baptiste - Ivan and Sylvia's son / Baptiste, Ivan and Sylvia's son |
François Regnault | L'analyste / The Analyst |
Thierry Bosc | La procureur / The Prosecutor |
Hélène Roussel | Le juge / The Judge |
Miglen Mirtchev | Maître Bakine - l'avocat d'Henri / Maître Bakine - Henri's lawyer |
David Frenkel | L'avocat d'Elizabeth / Elizabeth's Lawyer |
Romain Goupil | L'ami psychiatre / The Analyst's Friend |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Martine Cassinelli | Executive Producer |
Pascal Caucheteux | Producer |
Pierre Héros | Producer |
Vincent Maraval | Producer |