If you think your extended family can hurt each other, watch the Vuillard family cut each other to the bone during heated exchanges in “A Christmas Tale.”
Steeped in rich subplots and cartons of cigarettes, the subtitled flick is a French version of “The Family Stone” if you replaced all the Hollywood melodrama and hokiness for imaginative visual techniques and realistic dialogue that captures a natural light humor while dealing with dark themes such as a prodigal son’s threats and a withering relationship between son and mother.
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