Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances (French: Un air de famille) is a 1996 French comedy film. It was directed by Cédric Klapisch, and written by Klapisch, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri. The film stars Bacri, Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Wladimir Yordanoff, Claire Maurier and Zinedine Soualem.

Family Resemblances
Film poster
Directed byCédric Klapisch
Written byCédric Klapisch
Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Produced byCharles Gassot
StarringJean-Pierre Bacri
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Catherine Frot
Agnès Jaoui
Claire Maurier
Wladimir Yordanoff
CinematographyBenoît Delhomme
Edited byFrancine Sandberg
Music byPhilippe Eidel
Distributed byBac Films
Release date
  • 6 November 1996 (1996-11-06)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget€3.8 million[1]
Box office$35.4 million[1]

It won the César Award for Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Plot

An average French family ostensibly 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. Indeed, poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business. Henri (Bacri) runs a saloon that he inherited from his father called "The Even Tempered Dad," and in the near-empty bar, he plays host to several members of the family as they mark the 35th birthday of his sister-in-law, Yolande (Frot). Henri's sister, Betty (Jaoui), is 30, single, and not very happy about it; his brother (and Yolande's husband), Philippe (Yordanoff), is an executive in a growing software company; Mother (Maurier) is the siblings' strong-willed matriarch; and Henri's paralyzed dog is on hand, whom someone describes as "like a rug, but alive." It's not been a good day for most of them: Philippe is anxious that his boss might not have liked the tie he wore on television; Betty is depressed about the sad state of her current relationship; Henri has just learned that his wife is leaving him; and Mother is tossing caustic barbs at everyone left and right. Henri's bartender Denis (Darroussin) is the one neutral party on hand, and he provides the voice of reason in the midst of the bickering.

Cast

Awards and nominations

References
  1. "Un air de famille". JP's Box-Office.
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