Will It Snow For Christmas?

Hardly the fuzzy, holiday heartwarmer the title suggests, this superb film from France marks an amazingly assured debut by director Sandrine Veysset. The term "single working mother" doesn't even begin to cover the role Veysset's unnamed heroine (Dominique Reymond) must play: As the mother of seven illegitimate children, she works double duty trying to keep her impoverished family clothed and fed while they all labor on the vegetable farm in southern France that's owned by the children's father (Daniel Duval). He lives a few hours away in relative luxury with his "legitimate" wife and children, but each day checks in with his second family -- whom he values more as...