Go see it with a member of your family and you will emerge both better for it and delightfully entertained.
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01/01/00
Un Air de Famille (1996)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: An upper middle-class French dysfunctional family's weekly dinner begins as an evening of delightful memories but quickly transforms into a grudge match of tension filled squabbling and comedic... [More]
Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Catherine Frot, Claire Maurier, Wladimir Yordanoff
Director: Cedric Klapisch
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Reviews for Un Air de Famille
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There is something compelling about watching a slice-of-life saga that is so well acted.
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03/08/08
A charming entry from France.
09/17/04
The performances are uniformly excellent.
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07/06/05
A wonderfully rich and intelligent exploration of family dynamics.
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Top CriticThe film begins on a humorous note and goes on to find some universal truths in its family tensions.
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Top CriticThis series of dialogues is so truthful and is so on-target with its barbs that it's much harder to resist than it sounds.
01/01/00
A nostalgic reminder of why some of us fell in love with French films in the first place.
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Klapisch's mobile adaptation of the work to the screen is very intelligently carried out in terms of time as well as space.
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Top CriticThis droll symphony of comic disenchantment is as perfectly balanced and executed as the timepiece of your dreams.
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12/03/03
Klapisch's talent with actors is unmistakable, as is his feeling for how to make a dialogue-heavy script appear cinematic.
01/01/00
An affectionate glimpse at humankind.
01/01/00
Top CriticIf we want to analyze the average family, we can go home for the holidays.
01/01/00
It is directed by Cedric Klapisch, a former N.Y.U. film student, who has a knack for making films with wry observations regarding relationships
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