Will it Snow for Christmas?

Director Sandrine Veysset’s César-winning debut and realist masterpiece has been compared to the work of Maurice Pialat and Ken Loach.

Set on a remote farm in Southern France, a woman (Dominique Reymond) and her seven children have a hard life, one which is worsened by the brutish farms’ owner and father of the children.

The influences over Sandrine Veysset’s César-winning debut, from the quotidian focus of Chantal Akerman to the social realism of Ken Loach, are powerfully evident. Dominique Reymond excels as Mother, bringing a stoic, heroic love to these children. Hélène Louvart’s camerawork frames it rich and deep, just as she has done in more recent triumphs, La Chimera, Rocks and Romería.