My Favorite Season
My Favorite Season French Ma saison prfre is a 1993 French drama film directed by Andr Tchin and starring Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil and Marthe Villalonga. The story concerns two middle age siblings, a brother and sister, who resume their fragile relationship when they are forced to care for their ailing mother. It won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1996 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.
On Christmas Eve, Antoine arrives at his sisters home when milie, Bruno and their daughter are leaving for midnight mass. The neurotic Antoine has to remind himself not to be carried away and spoil the evening. As he wanders though the house looking for his mother, Antoine surprises his nephew Lucien, who works at a night club in town, making out with Khadija, milie and Brunos uninhibited Moroccan secretary who has been invited to spend Christmas with the family. Antoine promises not to tell anything. When he finds his mothers room, Berthe is delighted to see her son, but complains about living with her daughter. She dislikes Bruno, has no affection for the grandchildren and does not value her daughters efforts to make her feel at ease. Dinner is lively, but after the youngsters leave for Luciens room, tempers flares between Bruno and Antoine and they end up in a fist fight. Bruno becomes angry Antoine leaves with a bleeding nose and Berthe departs with her son. Talking later with Bruno, milie loathes what they have become. Anne is distraught with the familys dispute and looks to Khadija for solace.Berthe returns to live alone at her farm but she suffers a stroke. This forces milie to visit her brother once again. Antoine has moved to a small apartment in Toulouse. He is glad to learn that milie has separated from Bruno. The siblings agree to place their mother in a nursing home as the only viable option. They pick up Berthe and on the drive they remember old times. When milie and Antoine sing as they used to when they were children, Berthe cheers up. On a stop during the trip, Antoine fulfills a childhood dream and goes skinny dipping in a river. Berthe introduces her children to the director of the retirement home. She took good care of her children and they are now two very successful professionals who are too busy to take care of her, she says bitterly. Pressured by her brother, milie spends a night at Antoines apartment. He gives her a pill to help her sleep a
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