Only once a year. There's a lot of good in this movie. Color, picture, pleasant characters, melancholy music, Christmas trees, after all. The counterpoint of bright lights, simulated forest behind the trailer windows and loneliness, devastation in the hero’s life.
The protagonist is always sad. At least that's what I thought. Wherever and with whomever he was, the director never gave us the full fabulous happiness Noel felt. It is easy to assume that this is because the hero himself does not fully experience it either.
This fact makes happiness on the faces and in the homes of people who ordered the delivery of the Christmas tree feel more painful. It's like life.
It's nice that the film doesn't play into what has long been boring after watching standard Christmas movies.
Noel is a romantic, sensitive, subtle hero, whose loneliness is brightened by rare cases of falling in love. He's in the relationship. He does not fight for his happiness, leaving people free, but owe nothing to him.
Excellent acting, wonderfully shown heroes. None seemed flat, although many did not get more than a couple of lines of text.
Everything is great with rhythm, never once caught myself that something is wrong.
As for the story, it feels not invented, but real, due to this, all elements of the narrative are perceived as complicated and not “foreheadedly”.
Music is not used or used like a crutch. It coexists perfectly with history. It’s also good that there are a lot of scenes where there’s no dialogue, there’s no music, and there’s only inter-noise. They also work well for the rhythm of the film.
Many scenes were well rendered visually, for example with a fire. First, we see the hero in one window, he is asleep, he does not suspect anything, as well as the viewer. And then gently move the camera to the window on the right, where you can see the fire. Now the viewer knows that the fire threatens Noel's life. The audience is starting to worry about him. So everything is done right.
The prop feels alive, I easily believe that this guy, this is the clothes he lives in this trailer and sells these Christmas trees for 5 years.
All I didn't have was the surroundings. If there were more, it would add extra air and poetry to the film. In addition, the ones that were eventually used fit perfectly.
I can’t say anything about the dialogue, because I watched the film in translation, and this automatically makes any review about the plausibility of the replicas illegitimate.
Overall, the film is beautiful, cute, Christmas, but not fairy tale. If you are sad today and want a little warmth, then this movie will fit well into your mood.