My Favorite Season

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My Favorite Season
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2hrs 5min
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1993
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Fox Lorber
Synopsis: French critic and filmmaker André Téchiné directs the intense family drama Ma Saison Préférée (My Favorite Season), which he co-wrote with screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer. Family matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) is advancing in years and developing health problems, so she goes to live with her daughter Emilie (Catherine Deneuve). Emilie is a cold, fiftysomething professional who lives in a large upper-class home in Toulouse. She also lives with her husband Bruno (Jean-Pierre Bouvier), her daughter ... Full Synopsis
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This downbeat character drama may be too slow-paced and elliptical for some people's taste, but it contains enough strong performances and compelling scenes to satisfy patient viewers who don't mind the surfeit of ponderous dialogue. My Favorite Season is more successful at uncovering the characters' hidden feelings and motivations through their actions, expressions, awkward silences, and sudden outbursts ... Full Review
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