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Joyeux Noel
2005
On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football... Read more
| Starring | Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis |
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| Director | Christian Carion |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Joyeux Noel
On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football...
| Starring | Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon, Daniel Bruhl |
|---|---|
| Director | Christian Carion |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRISTAR FILMS |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: German, French, English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Nov 2006 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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34 out of 37 people found this review helpful
Expected more
This is a look at the effect of the coming of the First World War from the perspective of soldiers on the French, German and Scottish sides and the famous events of the 1914 Christmas armistice.
While the film features some strong performances, particularly from Guillaume Canet and Daniel Bruhl and there is some impressive cinematography, I found this film to be a touch heavy-handed in its approach, weighed down by some poor dialogue in places. This film also features some of the worse lip-synching you will ever see on screen from Diane Kruger and Benno Fuhrmann.
Despite its flaws, Joyeux Noel is touching, particularly in the way it shows the camaraderie between the different armies' soldiers. Solid but not great.
If you liked this, I would also recommend A Very Long Engagement. -
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Sentimental
And a bit anti-English too, in my opinion. The movie starts with a poem spoken by a German boy about killing the English. But the British in this movie are represented by a unit of Scotsmen. The only two Englishmen in the entire film are frothing at the mouth war-mongerers. You'd almost get the impression it was the English who forced the war upon the poor French, German and Scottish soldiers represented in this film.
The film was shot well, but far too simplistic and sentimental. I have recently read a couple of WW1 books, both written testimonies by the soldiers who fought in the war. There is not a single sentimental word in there. The soldiers who fought this war were not sentimental about it - they had to be practical, they had to live in mysery and witness carnage every day.
The reality of the harshness of trench warfare and army life at this period is not protrayed. -
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