Ma Saison Preferee

A remarkable dissection of bourgeois family life by Andre Techine (WILD REEDS), who may well be France's most important living auteur. Catherine Deneuve -- looking rather plain for the first time, and paradoxically more stunning than ever before -- delivers her most fully realized performance to date. She plays a fiftyish realtor coping with the demands of a dying mother, a disastrous marriage and her neurotically close relationship with a strange, wounded brother (Daniel Auteuil). Here, Techine's continuing project -- reinventing the domestic melodrama for postmodern times -- yields an observant, quietly passionate film that just might change the way you think abo...