You know when you love a movie and you want to shout it from the rooftops? Well, this is me scaling the wall and bellowing with all the bluster I’ve got in me, Austin: Go see A Christmas Tale! You have three crummy chances left to see this marvelous French film before it skips town for good.
Now I could go on and on about how ridiculous it is that a supposedly cinema-loving town can’t sustain one of the best-reviewed films of the year for more than a week, or that IFC Films really bungled the job here, by under-advertising the film and mailing out screeners too late for some critics groups to give it the proper attention it deserves – but that’s all in the past. What we have now is the present, and, like I said, presently only three more chances to see this funny, sexy, ecstatic panorama of despair and family dysfunction. (It’s feel-good, too, I swear it!) It’s playing tonight through Wednesday at 7:45pm at the Dobie.
Still not convinced? Don’t take my word for it. Here’s A.O. Scott’s word. And Karina Longworth’s. And Roger Ebert’s. And Stephanie Zacharek’s…
This article appears in December 19 • 2008.
