festive cheer: a moment of peace on earth and goodwill to all men
it had to overcome enormous challenges...
There seems to be some doubt now about whether it actually happened, but 2005’s Joyeux Noël remains a powerful and deeply moving telling of the (perhaps apocryphal) Christmas truce of World War I, in which soldiers across enemy lines came out of their trenches to share meals, carols, and football.
From my 2006 review:
[Writer-director Christian] Carion us…