I would be hard pressed to call Last Christmas a “love story.” While marketed and presented as such, I beg to differ. Last Christmas is the story of Kate—a bumbling, near-homeless, can’t-get-her-sh*t-together, hot mess of a young woman who wants desperately to be a singer but can only find work as a full-time elf in a Christmas shop—and she’s not even good at doing that. But is she at least likable? Meh.
Allow me to make a distinction, though: Kate the elf—the character, that is—is unpleasant throughout the duration of the film. In fact, given her attitude, she’s a shoe-in for getting coal in her stocking. Emilia Clarke, however, is extraordinarily likable. In a different world, Clarke might be typecast indefinitely and stuck in a world of medieval dramas, riding dragons, and spewing badasserry until the end of time. But I’m...
Allow me to make a distinction, though: Kate the elf—the character, that is—is unpleasant throughout the duration of the film. In fact, given her attitude, she’s a shoe-in for getting coal in her stocking. Emilia Clarke, however, is extraordinarily likable. In a different world, Clarke might be typecast indefinitely and stuck in a world of medieval dramas, riding dragons, and spewing badasserry until the end of time. But I’m...
- 11/9/2019
- by Mandi Ruffner
- CinemaNerdz
I would be hard pressed to call Last Christmas a “love story.” While marketed and presented as such, I beg to differ. Last Christmas is the story of Kate—a bumbling, near-homeless, can’t-get-her-sh*t-together, hot mess of a young woman who wants desperately to be a singer but can only find work as a full-time elf in a Christmas shop—and she’s not even good at doing that. But is she at least likable? Meh.
Allow me to make a distinction, though: Kate the elf—the character, that is—is unpleasant throughout the duration of the film. In fact, given her attitude, she’s a shoe-in for getting coal in her stocking. Emilia Clarke, however, is extraordinarily likable. In a different world, Clarke might be typecast indefinitely and stuck in a world of medieval dramas, riding dragons, and spewing badasserry until the end of time. But I’m...
Allow me to make a distinction, though: Kate the elf—the character, that is—is unpleasant throughout the duration of the film. In fact, given her attitude, she’s a shoe-in for getting coal in her stocking. Emilia Clarke, however, is extraordinarily likable. In a different world, Clarke might be typecast indefinitely and stuck in a world of medieval dramas, riding dragons, and spewing badasserry until the end of time. But I’m...
- 11/9/2019
- by Mandi Ruffner
- CinemaNerdz
Director Paul Feig's "Last Christmas" is for romance junkies. Packed with frothy soppiness, it is a rehash of the clumsiest-meets-cute formula.
Set in the backdrop of Christmas in London, it tells us the story of Kate (Emilia Clarke), a 26-year-old Yugoslavian settled in the UK. She is endearing but clumsy to the core. She wants to be a professional singer, but works in a store selling Christmas decorations because that's the only job she manages to cling on to.
Despite having a family, she prefers to be homeless because her concerned, neurotic mother has literally driven her entire family away.
In this chaotic life of hers, she meets, the handsome and charming Tom Webster (Henry Golding), who is annoyingly mysterious, understanding and constantly giving her unsolicited life lessons. How she gradually falls ? hook, line and sinker ? for him, forms the crux of the narrative.
Written by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings,...
Set in the backdrop of Christmas in London, it tells us the story of Kate (Emilia Clarke), a 26-year-old Yugoslavian settled in the UK. She is endearing but clumsy to the core. She wants to be a professional singer, but works in a store selling Christmas decorations because that's the only job she manages to cling on to.
Despite having a family, she prefers to be homeless because her concerned, neurotic mother has literally driven her entire family away.
In this chaotic life of hers, she meets, the handsome and charming Tom Webster (Henry Golding), who is annoyingly mysterious, understanding and constantly giving her unsolicited life lessons. How she gradually falls ? hook, line and sinker ? for him, forms the crux of the narrative.
Written by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings,...
- 11/7/2019
- GlamSham
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