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Arnold Desplechin

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Dying on the Mind: ‘A Christmas Tale’ and ‘House of the Sleeping Beauties’

By Chris Barsanti

In the moody House of the Sleeping Beauties, an aging widower fights despair with a succession of naked beauties, while in the sprawling A Christmas Tale, a family bickers around their mother’s terminal illness. [14 November 2008]

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Television
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DVDs
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