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Catching up on this great idea!

Day 1: A holiday movie you watch every year
"It's a Wonderful Life"

Day 2: A holiday film with Santa Claus
""The Santa Clause"

Day 3: A holiday film with snowmen

"Frosty the Snowman"

Day 4: A holiday film with an animal lead

"Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer"

Day 5: A holiday movie you hate

"Elf" not a Farrell fan

Day 6: A holiday movie from a foreign country (made in a country other than your own)
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Joyeux Noel (2006, France)


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Day 6 - a holiday movie from a foreign country

This Finnish movie kept showing up on lists of unknown movies to watch. Took me like two years to get around to watching it and I’m glad I did. It’s a fun little Christmas creature feature.

 
Day 6 - A holiday movie from a different country

36.15 Code Pere Noel (1989 – RenΓ© Manzor)

(AKA Game Over, Dial Code Santa Claus, Deadly Games & (my personal favourite), Las fantasΓ­as del pequeΓ±o Rambo)

Home alone ripped off this film

 
Day 6: A holiday movie from a foreign country

I probably would've understood only 10% of this movie without subtitles. I have failed that evil owl πŸ˜”

Seven Women and a Murder is so camp and I kind of loved it.

 
Day 6 - a holiday movie from a foreign country

This Finnish movie kept showing up on lists of unknown movies to watch. Took me like two years to get around to watching it and I’m glad I did. It’s a fun little Christmas creature feature.

Dammit! I hoped no one would have mentioned this one! (I had it in mind when I suggested the prompt.) I love it, and I am glad you enjoyed it too.
 
Day 6: A holiday movie from a foreign country

I had one in mind, and it got got. So I am going with a nice Scottish film by Bill Forsyth. Comfort and Joy stars Bill Paterson as a local radio celebrity Alan "Dicky" Bird, whose girlfriend of four years, after shoplifting a bunch of stuff, declares she is leaving him and taking most of their things. Alan becomes despondent and mopes around for quite a while, then drives all over Glasgow. He spots a lovely woman (Clare Grogan) in the back of an ice cream van (apparently Glasgow is so cold, they sell ice cream all year round) and he follows her. After buying an ice cream, he is the witness as a bunch of guys in stocking caps show up and attack the ice cream truck (the vendor responds with raspberry syrup). One of the attackers recognizes Alan and asks for his autograph. What starts as a possible meet cute (we barely see Grogan for the rest of the movie, which is a shame), ends up with the DJ caught up in an ice cream turf war. (Unfortunately for this movie, at the time it was out there were battles between ice cream trucks in Glasgow, but they were actually selling drugs for the mob, not arguing over ice cream recipes). The rest of the movie is Alan trying to end this turf war. Between ice cream trucks.

It is a slow film, both comedy and drama in turns, but more comedy. I did not enjoy it as much as some of Forsyth's other films, especially....I can't say. Don't want to anger the Christmas Queen or enrage the...kitten-bear-bunny-demon thing... but it rhymes with "Mocal Mero." But Comfort and Joy references a Christmas carol in the title, and takes place at Christmas, so it counts as Holiday movie. Barely.

This is a "put it on on a slow Sunday afternoon" movie. It is slow, and melancholic, and has a lot of charm. And so much 80s sax in the soundtrack, but also Mark Knopfler, just like...the other movie.

Comfort and Joy (1984)

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