Happy Christmas
20145.1movie
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
As a result, the film (more lo-fi and less sleek than “Drinking Buddies”) has a rich, grainy look that recalls cheery, cluttered holiday photos from an earlier time, maybe the 1980s. The holidays typically work in cinema as a…
“Happy Christmas” meanders early on as well. At first it appears to be a “Laggies”-esque (review here) tale of adult-lescence via the emotionally troubled and irresponsible Jenny, and then it wanders towards Kelly’s empowering story of…
For this film, his emphasis seems to be the ways that people try to strike a balance between maturity and aspirations. From the perspective of Kelly, Jenny and her friend, Carson (played with unassuming charm by Lena Dunham), are…
