“Almost perfect Christmas”
Advent, Advent, the hut is burning
“Almost Perfect Christmas” is a chaotic French comedy involving charities and burning Christmas trees, which airs two weeks before the first of Advent late at night.
What is Christmas about? Present? Big party? A few days of peace from the stress of everyday life? No, for Vincent (Franck Dubosc) Christmas is a “family celebration”. So he was devastated when, just before Christmas Eve, all the kids canceled one by one. Should he and his wife Beatrice (Emmanuelle Devos) celebrate just the two of them? A sad idea that Vincent counters with a grand but important gesture in the French comedy “Almost Perfect Christmas” (director and screenplay: Clément Michel). The former is now showing films from 2023 late at night.
The Christmas Mass gave Vincent an important idea. There are many people who sing alone at Christmas, the pastor said. And Vincent thought: Why not look for such a person and invite him and Beatrice? After all, Christmas also means charity. Vincent finds what he is looking for at a nursing home, and contrary to his initial plans, he then takes two senior citizens home with him: Monique (Danièle Lebrun) and Jeanne (Danielle Fichaud).
The two lonely retirees accept the invitation gratefully, but the rowdy grandmothers abandon their manners at the nursing home. Once they entered the apartment they complained that it “smelled” (truffles), then the guest bed was too small for them, then they drank perfume (which they mistook for rum), and in the end the whole living room caught fire. There is also a slight desire to kill someone mixed with charity. Either way: a Christmas that everyone involved will remember for a long time!
An almost perfect Christmas – Friday. November 28 – ARD: 23:55
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