A pretty dream, inspired by fact, of brotherhood on the WWI battlefield, with the French, the Scots, and the Germans all laying down their arms on Christmas Eve, 1914, and celebrating the holiday together. (Big treat for everyone: Diane Kruger, as a Danish diva, visits her lover in the trenches and lip-synchs to the voice of Nathalie Dessay.) The preludial groundwork -- children of different lands parroting chauvinistic jingles in the classroom -- is very strong, but the rest of the work is like an overelaboration of a single vignette from A Midnight Clear, and at this length it can hardly help but become pious and preachy. With Guillaume Canet, Benno Furmann, Gary Lewis, and Daniel Bruhl; written and directed by Christian Carion. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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