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Joyeux Noel
Directed by
Christian Carion
PG-13
2006
1h 56m
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7.6
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7.4
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In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
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Cast of Joyeux Noel
Diane Kruger
Anna Sörensen
Benno Fürmann
Nikolaus Sprink
Guillaume Canet
Audebert
Gary Lewis
Palmer
Dany Boon
Ponchel
Daniel Brühl
Horstmayer
Alex Ferns
Gordon
Steven Robertson
Jonathan
Frank Witter
Jörg
Bernard Le Coq
The General
Ian Richardson
The Bishop
Lucas Belvaux
Gueusselin
Thomas Schmauser
The Crown Prince
Natalie Dessay
Anna Sörensen (singing voice)
Rolando Villazón
Nikolaus Sprink (singing voice)
Joachim Bißmeier
Zimmermann
Robin Laing
William
Michel Serrault
The Castle Keeper
Suzanne Flon
The Castle Keeper
Calum Beaton
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Joyeux Noel Ratings & Reviews
NPR
Bob Mondello
You can't watch this film without thinking about modern wars and about how much easier it is to demonize a foe when language and customs are more at odds.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Some might castigate its unabashed sentimentality, but I found myself moved, especially when I recalled that this was supposedly the war to end all wars.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Well-photographed and acted, Joyeux Nol suffers most from the inevitable comparison with its betters, such films as Paths of Glory or All Quiet on the Western Front.
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The movie isn't perfect -- Spielberg-slick, its power is sometimes dampened by melodrama that overstates its message -- but it is compelling and thought-provoking and topical as hell.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Its noble intentions do not negate its lumpy ordinariness.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A poignant and rousing carol for peace.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Lovely and moving.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Ultimately it fades away quickly from memory; a sad fate for a good story.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
If only the other two thirds book ending these moments weren't so regrettably forgettable.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The film ends with a moving and surprisingly sophisticated meditation on the definition of moral duty.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
The story's factual weight compensates for the film's schmaltzy telling. We might grimace at some of the movie's machinations, but it's hard not to be moved by the humanity it depicts.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Carion has given it exactly the qualities that often appeal most strongly to moviemakers and humanists: social breadth, warmth, humor, sympathetic characters and a passionate sense of justice.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
[Images of WWI are] terrible, but shadowy and distant, and it takes an extraordinary film on the order of Joyeux Noel to make it all suddenly vital, immediate and human.
Associated Press
David Germain
An elegantly crafted drama that derives its eerie, ethereal mood as much from the sounds of war -- and their absence -- as the sights of combat.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's hard not to admire the film's sense of nobility. It's harder not to find the movie dull.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Joyeux Noel has its share of bloodshed, but the movie is about a respite from carnage.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Writer/Director Christian Carion wrings every drop of emotion possible from these tales, and he delivers a film so corny that at times it might have given Frank Capra pause. But you know what? It worked on me.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
The message is powerful with storytelling to match.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The true story here is so astonishing that there was no need for the film to resort to obvious dialogue (the characters keep spelling out what we have just seen) or heavy-handed characters.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
You can't go wrong with an uplifting, anti-war story like this, but director Christian Carion trowels on the schmaltz.
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