SoilentSo this is Christmas
2023
“What does Santa Claus have to do with Jesus?”
In the Irish provinces, various people and families are shown preparing for Christmas. They are accompanied by social outsiders with compulsions and strokes of fate: Eating disorders, alcoholism, abuse, loss.
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A ★★★★ review of So This Is Christmas (2023)
[English] What does Santa Claus have to do with Jesus? In the Irish provinces, various people and families are shown preparing for Christmas. They are accompanied by social outsiders with compulsions and strokes of fate: Eating disorders, alcoholism, abuse, loss. What does Christmas mean to these people? For some, it's a blinking binge or strict rules of faith, but for others it's a day full of social constraints. With good editing and pointed music, a story is told that starts out narratively contemplative, but then goes very deep without becoming kitschy. Sad moments alternate with funny punchlines. A documentary that
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