Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances French Un air de famille is a 1996 French comedy film. It was directed by Cdric Klapisch, and written by Klapisch, Agns Jaoui and JeanPierre Bacri. The film stars Bacri, Jaoui, JeanPierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Vladimir Yordanoff, Claire Maurier and Zinedine Soualem.

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 others sore spots turns out to be the main order of business. Henri Bacri runs a saloon that he inherited from his father called The Sleepy Dad, and in the nearempty bar, he plays host to several members of the family as they mark the 35th birthday of his sisterinlaw, Yolande Frot. Henris sister, Betty Jaoui, is 30, single, and not very happy about it his brother and Yolandes husband, Philippe Yordanoff, is an executive in a growing software company Mother Maurier is the siblings strongwilled matriarch and Henris paralyzed dog is on hand, whom someone describes as like a rug, but alive. Its 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. Henris bartender Denis Darroussin is the one neutral party on hand, and he provides the voice of reason in the midst of the bickering.

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