Critic: "The time of the year" – Finally a Christmas movie to feel

Comedy / drama

Realized by:

Paprika Steen

actors:

Paprika Steen, Sofie Gråbøl, Karen-Lise Mynster and others.

Date of the first:

December 7, 2018

Age limit:

6 years

Original title:

"The time of the year"

"The film is for the moment for Christmas."

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MOVIE: Here is the movie for everyone who goes to Christmas. For all those who do their best to forget the family drama of Christmas, when his father-in-law drank before dinner, his aunt threw red cabbage into his uncle's throat, the sword was hard and the tears diluted the risk.

The Danish actor, Paprika Steen, is titled "The time of the year" after the scenario of Jakob Weis. This comedy / tragedy is a heavy reminder of how compulsive family businesses can be funny, funny and funny. This is not a conflict that does not flourish in such a case.

Family drama

Here, however, the conflicts are not as dramatic as in Thomas Vinterberg's "Feast" (1998), but siblings, divorce-related trauma, and rusks tend to also characterize more functional families. Paprika Steen herself plays Katrine, a granddaughter over 40 who is herself the eldest of the three sisters. Katrine and the man are the guests of the year for Christmas dinner, which includes children of all ages and various parents and in-laws.

Some come straight from rehabilitation, others do not feel well, others have ADHD, others are accompanied by love, some come with kids – in short, the Danish family looks like most middle class families. One of the sisters (Sofie Gråbøl) is a newly graduated priest who will hold her first Christmas service. "Is the family a building in liquidation? Is it reduced to a consumption unit?" She asks the church, and we know what can come.

Toxic responses

All that goes wrong goes wrong in a sauce of quick and toxic answers. The red cabbage is inedible, the dog Kafka snow on the counter of the kitchen. And can you really drink Barolo for Christmas, or is it really better than the French revelation?

This is not exactly a Christmas movie in the feelgood mode of Love Actually, which you will understand. But is it perhaps more recognizable? Oh you with your horror

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