The holidays are meant to be joyous occasions where families come together to rejoice in each other's company—in theory, at least. In practice, families are far more bizarre than the outside world could ever know. The holidays can be a time of awkward encounters, airing of family drama, and the cataclysmic mixing of outsiders. A Christmas Tale (Un conte de noël), captures family awkwardness and absurdity in a well-built story that is, well, totally French. The film tells the intricately woven tale of Junon (played by French national treasure Catherine Deneuve), an aging mother of three who has developed leukemia. The family is not unfamiliar with the disease; many years earlier Junon and her husband Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) had a child with leukemia that their daughter, Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), was unable to donate her bone marrow to. In an attempt to provide a new donor, the couple had a third child, Henri, but before they could use his marrow, his afflicted brother died. Now,

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