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Joyeux Noel (Widescreen)
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by Sony Pictures
Sales Rank: 914
Price: $9.99
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Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film, <i>Joyeux Noel</i> (Merry Christmas) tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war. Diane Krüger (<i>Troy</i>), Daniel Brühl (<i>Good Bye Lenin</i>!) and Benno Fürmann (<i>The Princess and the Warrior</i>) head a first-rate international cast in a truly powerful, must-see film.
Viewer Reviews
This moving film is the best Christmas movie to date, the more so because the events depicted actually happened (1914), and not only in the Ypres trenches but in several points along the entire Western Front. That anonymous enemies decided all of a sudden to stop the war for a moment of worship and merriment may smack of "sentimentality" to some, but that's the whole point! That even at the worst of times, humanity is the basic nature of mankind. Don't forget these soldiers faced a court martial, even a firing squad, for their brief night of sanity!
Do yourself a favor and watch it this Christmas, instead of all those Rudolphs, Frosties, Grinches, Elves and their like, that only blur the true meaning of the holiday. Let's put the Christ back in "Xmas" (I loathe this spelling) by remembering we are all our brother's keeper!
P.S.: Come to think of it, there's a scene where the lovely Ms Kruger appears in her birthday suit. So unless you are willing to give the kiddies an unusual yuletide surprise, I suggest you push the skip>forward button in the remote. Better still, watch it a first time by yourself, and then rely on your own judgement!
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