Fête de famille

Grim drama about a dysfunctional family. The acting is very good. The cinematography, music and interiors are very artful. The arts are a recurring theme in this movie as seen in the child play and the movie in the movie. The story centers on the troubled half sisters return after three years absence to the family at the matriarchs birthday. Main themes are money, manipulation and mental illness (bipolar or borderline?). The breakdowns are painful to watch. It's not a feel good movie, maybe therefore the low ratings.

Aucune recherche. Des petites mesquineries à la française. Carherine Deneuve n'est vraiment pas à son avantage. Les autres sont de caricatures de beaufs.

Every family has at least one person that everyone belittles or thinks less of. Sometimes that may not be warranted and may only be so everyone else feels better about themselves. In other instances the family itself may have contributed to the mental state of mind of that one person.

Which is something that may ring true in this movie. We have a daughter that is quite out there and may have lost some marbles as they say. Or did she? Is it only others who try to make her seem crazy? Well I would say overall the movie is pretty clear where it stands ... but it also tells us more, about that character, but also about the other family members and their role ... not all family festivities are fun (I know, good joke, right?)

If you read between the overplayed and garish lines, an interesting story about guilt, manipulation and family construction appears. You may get tired of the picture while you see it, but afterwards you have something to think of and discuss. Also(!) take a look at the genus theme, which side the women and the men are taking. It's interesting how so different characters see, regardless of the others, the same things because of their gender.

What a waste of time! This is the worst movie out of all movies that I've seen in the past decade ! It is completely pointless and all characters are extremely annoying. I can't even believe how can anyone write such nonsense, let alone direct it. Complete waste of time and energy to preserve until the end. AVOID! Message to writer : please spare us bad writing like these!