This drama about a dysfunctional family could be used as lesson 101 in how not to write drama. There is so little for the audience to discover as all the characters not only tells us who they are, but who everyone else is; as they all gabble on and on, bickering and clashing. Catherine Deneuve is well cast as a repressed bourgeoise, as she's an actress not famed for her emotional range. Daniel Auteuil is perfectly competent as a self-indulgent smart-arse, and the rest of the cast is efficient; but I neither believe them nor care about them, because they're cardboard fabrications created to cause dreary conflicts. Don't worry, it's not all bicker and angst; there are some box-office mandatories: sex, gratuitous nudity; almost-lesbianism, biff, dementia, divorce, but none of it convinces, not even for a second. The director has made a few similar films, all of which fail to convince by dint of his preference for pretension.