Gibt es zu Weihnachten Schnee? (1996)

Gibt es zu Weihnachten Schnee?: Directed by Sandrine Veysset. With Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez, Alexandre Roger. 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 fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.

“Thank you to viewers who stayed to the end, thatu0026#39;s what the credits say!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is true that some people left the house after twenty minutes. I have felt amazed, puzzled, wondered, what a beautiful movie! What a strange movie to!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUsually the screenplay, or the director, takes the spectator in consideration and explains to the viewers what it is all about. Not here: suddenly, you are in this farm, people live their lives, donu0026#39;t seem to realize you are there, they work and play and toil, and laugh and cry, and you are still there and you have to make it up for yourself. And you would like so much to be in the screen with them, and talk to them and try to help, and love them, and… and.. and.. And you are hot in the summer and you are so cold in the winter when she picks cabbages (or is it celeriac?) If I refer to Pierrot le Fou, it is because I have not seen anything so different and so catching since.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThank you, thank you for such a beautiful movie. Iu0026#39;m so glad you ran out of gas!”