“Un Conte De Noel” (”A Christmas Tale”): The Messy Joys of Family
“We’re in the middle of a midst of a myth and I don’t know what myth it is.”
- Henri (Mathieu Amalric)
In the opening of Arnaud Desplechin’s Un Conte De Noel (A Christmas Tale), a wily and knotty and unendingly inventive drama of family dysfunction stirred up over a Christmas gathering, the story of the long-ago [...]