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Will It Snow for Christmas?

1996 · 90 min

A quiet, sunlit rural childhood shadowed by adult exploitation, watched with patient tenderness and a slow-building ache.

Directed by: Sandrine Veysset
Genres: Drama
Starring: Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez

Overview: A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm, an egotistic and authoritarian individual who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.

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Directed by: Sandrine Veysset
Genres: Drama
Starring: Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
isolation
power
survival
class
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Sandrine Veysset
Written by: Sandrine Veysset, Antoinette de Robien
Starring: Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez, Alexandre Roger, Xavier Colonna, Fanny Rochetin, Flavie Chimènes, Jérémy Chaix
Cinematography: Hélène Louvart
Runtime: 90 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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