2020 · animation · family
Angela's Christmas Wish
Directed by Damien O'Connor48m2020
A determined Angela makes a wish to reunite her family in time for Christmas, then launches a plan to find her way from Ireland to Australia.
Our read: Angela's Christmas Wish (2020) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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How Angela's Christmas Wish feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a warm animated Irish Christmas story of a girl wishing her family together.”
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