Movie
Family Resemblances
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-09-07
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Téléma Productions, Le Studio Canal+, France 2 Cinéma
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Bacri as Henri Ménard
- Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Denis
- Catherine Frot as Yolande Ménard
- Agnès Jaoui as Betty Ménard
- Claire Maurier as La mère
- Wladimir Yordanoff as Philippe Ménard
- Alain Guillo as Le présentateur TV
- Cédric Klapisch as Le père en 1967
- Antoine Chappey as Neighbor of the estate
- Sophie Simon as La mère en 1967
- Aurélie Remacle as Betty en 1967
- Romain Legrand as Kevin
Crew
- Cédric Klapisch - Director
- Agnès Jaoui - Writer
- Jean-Pierre Bacri - Writer
- Cédric Klapisch - Writer
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