Will It Snow for Christmas?
Sandrine Veysset, 1996
This grim movie brought its debutante director a César for French newcomer of the year. It focuses on the exploited mistress of a well-off married farmer raising her seven children on a smallholding in France. An unsentimental tale of love and hope against all the odds leads up over some six or seven months to a warm but frugal Christmas Eve dinner that’s Dickensian in tone until we realise the mother contemplates killing herself and her children. It invites us to examine the Christmas story from the position of those who never escaped from the manger
The Guardian
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