Les Grandes Claques (Like the Ones I Used to Know)

Directed by Annie St-Pierre · Starring Lilou Roy-Lanouette, Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Laurent Lemaire · 2021

Christmas Eve, 1983: the kids are high on sugar and Santa is late, while a divorced father sits alone in his car, dreading walking into his ex-in-laws' house to pick up his children.

A tender, funny and quietly aching Christmas Eve snapshot of divorce, seen through both the kids' and the father's eyes.

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.: Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious at the idea of setting foot in his ex-in-laws house to pick up his children.

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