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Joyeux Noel - 2005 - 7/10
Really enjoyable movie. I feared over-saccharine mush based on the premise but always enjoyed the real story. Perhaps some may find it so but I enjoyed it. Solid performances all around but Daniel Brühl crackles. I enjoyed the fact that the third act was about the aftermath of the ceasefire. It gets very overt toward the end (sermon mirroring intro, English nationalism to an absurd but not unbelievable degree in the speech that affects Palmer, the people who all take over for the disgraced troops, etc) but the themes were strong and resonated with me. As a veteran, I pine for the era where there was a level of mutual respect between battlefield opponents.
Bonus - Almost every German soldier I see in movies is an evil Nazi. It's just easy. It was nice to see German soldiers humanized and something other than pure evil.
Really enjoyable movie. I feared over-saccharine mush based on the premise but always enjoyed the real story. Perhaps some may find it so but I enjoyed it. Solid performances all around but Daniel Brühl crackles. I enjoyed the fact that the third act was about the aftermath of the ceasefire. It gets very overt toward the end (sermon mirroring intro, English nationalism to an absurd but not unbelievable degree in the speech that affects Palmer, the people who all take over for the disgraced troops, etc) but the themes were strong and resonated with me. As a veteran, I pine for the era where there was a level of mutual respect between battlefield opponents.
Bonus - Almost every German soldier I see in movies is an evil Nazi. It's just easy. It was nice to see German soldiers humanized and something other than pure evil.