DVD : Joyeux Noel (Widescreen)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396150997
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 1152
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film, Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war. Diane Krüger (Troy), Daniel Brühl (Good Bye Lenin!) and Benno Fürmann (The Princess and the Warrior) head a first-rate international cast in a truly powerful, must-see film.
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Joyeux Noel captures a rare moment of grace from one of the worst wars in the history of mankind, World War I. On Christmas Eve, 1914, as German, French, and Scottish regiments face each other from their respective trenches, a musical call-and-response turns into an impromptu cease-fire, trading chocolates and champagne, playing soccer, and comparing pictures of their wives. But when Christmas ends, the war returns...Joyeux Noel has been justly accused of sentimentality, but if any subject warrants such an earnest and hopeful treatment, it's the horrors of trench warfare. The largely unknown cast--the more familiar faces include Diane Kruger (Troy), Daniel Bruhl (Good Bye Lenin!), Benno Furmann (The Princess and the Warrior), and Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot)--deliver low-key but effective performances as the movie dwells on the everyday elements of life in the face of war. Based on a true incident (though considerably fictionalized). --Bret Fetzer
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This moving film is the best Christmas movie to date, the more so because the events depicted actually happened (1914), and not only in the Ypres trenches but in several points along the entire Western Front. That anonymous enemies decided all of a sudden to stop the war for a moment of worship and kindness may smack of "sentimentality" to some, but that's the whole point! That even at the worst of times, humanity is the basic nature of mankind. Don't forget these soldiers faced a court martial, even a firing squad, for their brief night of sanity!
Do yourself a favor and watch it this Christmas, instead of all those Rudolphs, Frosties, Grinches, Elves and their like, that only blur the true meaning of the holiday. Let's put the Christ back in "Xmas" (I loathe this spelling) by remembering we are all our brother's keeper!
P.S.: Come to think of it, there's a scene where the lovely Ms Kruger appears in her birthday suit. So unless you are willing to give the kiddies an unusual yuletide surprise, I suggest you push the skip>forward button in the remote. Better still, watch it a first time by yourself, and then rely on your own judgement!
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My war was of a different time and place. This film has captured that small part of humanity found in all wars. A facinating study of the human condition in the extreem.
This DVD makes a wonderful Christmas gift.
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This movie shows the human side of WWI, a side of war you don't see in most movies.
I've shown it two years in a row in my American History class (high school), and will continue to do so as the years move forward. My students hear that it has subtitles and automatically think the movie is going to be terrible. After viewing it, most say it's one of the best films they've ever seen.
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this movie is well acted and i would recommend that those of you who have not seen it .please go ahead and watch it
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The film is pretty amusing due to the characters and their interactions with one another. I did enjoy it although it wasn't necessarily as life-changing as some people told me it was. All in all: not bad.
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starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villazón
directed by: Christian Carion
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396150997
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 1152
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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