2014 · comedy · drama
Happy Christmas
Directed by Joe Swanberg1h 22m2014
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Our read: Happy Christmas (2014) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
- intimate
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How Happy Christmas feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want loose, improvised holiday domestic drama with Anna Kendrick stirring things up.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if mumblecore pacing and aimless party scenes test your patience.
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