| Christmas Eve in Denmark. The boy Benjamin is with his father and mother at the station to pick up his grandmother. It's all sad and gray - but Benjamin's wild imagination gives color to a bearded and crooked contemporary version of the Christmas Gospel itself. Three spritzers are, for example, very wise men, a pregnant woman named Marie, etc. But the fact that the film is also about our time is evidenced by street fights between brutal police officers and Santa Clauses. The latter find it difficult to get through with the message that "Christmas is the feast of the heart". |
