Family Resemblances
Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances

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1996
1h 50m
7.3(321 votes)
Comedy

Overview

An upper middle-class French family 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.

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France 2 Cinéma

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