Movie Review | 'A Christmas Tale': Ah, Home for the Holidays and Extra Helpings of Family Dysfunction

30.11.1999 /

After two and a half hours in the thrilling, exhausting company of the characters in “A Christmas Tale,” the intimacy we feel with them is wired with surprise.

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