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Will It Snow for Christmas? (original title: Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël ?) is a 1996 French drama film directed by Sandrine Veysset and produced by Humbert Balsan.
A woman (Dominique Reymond) keeps a happy home for her children despite the tyranny of her mostly absent husband (Daniel Duval).
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- Sandrine Veysset
- Holiday, Drama
- Dominique Reymond
- Sandrine Veysset had never even considered making a film before. Despite building some sets for Leos Carax’s Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) and Karim Dridi’s Bye-Bye (1995), Sandrine Veysset had no intention of making a film.
- It belongs to a rich tradition of French films about farming. Veysset was not a keen movie-goer and had studied art and literature, so it’s likely that she was more influenced by painters such as Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau and books such as Émile Zola’s La Terre (1887) than by any films on farm life.
- The naturalism of the performances. Determined from the outset to cast relative unknowns as the parents of the seven children on the farm near Cavaillon in the Vaucluse, Veysset paired stage actress Dominique Reymond with TV stalwart Daniel Duval.
- There’s more to the visuals than authentic muck. Veysset has played down the film’s autobiographical basis. However, as the setting isn’t time specific, it’s tempting to suggest that she was seeking to recreate the look and feel of the Super 8 home movies that her brother had made in the 1970s.
Sep 10, 2012 · Will It Snow for Christmas? 1996, directed by Sandrine Veysset | Film review. Film. Time Out says. A remarkable debut from writer/director Veysset, this depiction of farm life in the south...
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Will It Snow For Christmas? was written and directed in 1996 by Sandrine Veysset who had never made a film before. She was 29 and had been employed building sets for low budget movies before becoming a driver on Leos Carax's Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf.
A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm an egotistic and authoritarian individual, who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the ...
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