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On Christmas Eve, a family gathers for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home
As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own..
Featured in The 7PM Project: Episode dated 22 November 2024 (2024)
One of Steven Spielberg’s sons and one of Martin Scorsese’s daughters are in this movie..
They’re funny, but they’re not comedies, there’s drama, but they’re not dramas
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is a stunning and strange film from Tyler Taormina, an uncompromising young filmmaker.If you’ve seen Taormina’s previous films, ("Ham on Rye" / "Wild Flies” / the dialogue-less “Happer’s Comet”) then you might have a sense of what is going to wash over you when you sit down for this, his first effort to see broader distribution.Taormina’s films exist outside of conventional genre and storytelling.
When trying to describe the film, it begins to sound "art house" and dry, but it’s anything butIt’s a film I strongly recommend to anyone with an open mind and an open heart
Characters experience conflict and resolution, but no single thread that must be followed to its end.Taormina’s films offer an experience that feels totally alive, with characters you’ll fall in love with, and moments that feel too ordinary to be Hollywood, as well as moments that seem to absurd to be faked.This is a difficult film to share, because the press materials (accurately) depict a family Christmas movie featuring Michael Cera, but it’s not what you’ 39;d expect from that at all.
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