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Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

Comedy · 1996

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

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Family Resemblances

1996 Comedy 1h 50m

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7.3 / 10

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An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

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Directed by

Cédric Klapisch

Written by

Agnès Jaoui · Jean-Pierre Bacri · Cédric Klapisch

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Henri Ménard

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Denis

Catherine Frot

Catherine Frot

Yolande Ménard

Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui

Betty Ménard

Claire Maurier

Claire Maurier

La mère

Wladimir Yordanoff

Wladimir Yordanoff

Philippe Ménard

Alain Guillo

Alain Guillo

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Court is in session

Put Family Resemblances on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.