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‘That Christmas’ Review: Love (Actually) Is All Around In This Richard Curtis-Scripted Feelgood Animation – London Film Festival
‘That Christmas’ review: Love (Actually) is all around in this Richard Curtis-scripted feelgood animation – London Film Festival
Like Love Actually, it features a multitude of interlocking stories and characters, but Curtis is humble enough to offer up his divisive romcom for derision, poking fun at his 2003 film as a cheesy object of yuletide scorn (alongside Brussels sprouts and washing dishes). In a strange move that doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense, a bunch of local parents decide to head off to a wedding on Christmas Eve, leaving their little ones in the charge of Bernadette (India Brown), the teenage Cecil B. DeMille who directed the school play. Maybe this inspired the character of Bernadette, or maybe it was Sam, but either way it’s significant that the school play here is “a strictly vegetarian, multicultural funfest with lots of pop songs and stuff about climate change” in which the three shepherds are now organic farmers with flocks of broccoli, sweetcorn and aubergines (plus a chickpea).
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