ENTERTAINMENT
November 16, 2008 | Graham Fuller, Fuller is a freelance writer.
In "A Christmas Tale," French director Arnaud Desplechin's bittersweet deconstruction of the home-for-the-holidays drama, Catherine Deneuve plays the hands-off matriarch Junon, who may not live to say "Joyeux Noel" again. She and her husband (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are used to crises. They lost the first of their three sons in infancy.