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Friday, May 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa

Arnaud Desplechin's wrenching "Christmas Tale" might just be a dysfunctional-family masterpiece.
Andrew O'Hehir

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Friday, May 16, 2008 07:18 AM

Editorially speaking

This is the kind of Christmas where brother-in-laws have a violent punch-out at the dinner table

It's brothers-in-law, not brother-in-laws. It's the brothers, not the laws, that exist in plural here.

It does sound like "Fanny and Alexander" by the way. I loved "Fanny and Alexander." I'll have to check this one out if it plays near me.

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