The family comedy The Christmas cyclone which is currently enjoying great success in theaters, proves to us that it is not only in Hollywood that good Christmas films are produced. Of December 23 to classic The war of the tuques, here are 7 local Christmas films to see or rewatch during the holidays.
The tuque war
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More than 40 years after its theatrical release, this popular Tale for All, whose story is set during the Christmas holidays, remains each year a must-see in the Ciné-cadeau programming. There we find some of the most famous lines in the history of Quebec cinema, including the famous “War, war, that’s no reason to get hurt!”.
Red nose
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Directed by the late Érik Canuel (Good Cop, Bad Cop), this romantic comedy released in 2003 stars Patrick Huard in the role of a literary critic who must work as a volunteer for Operation Red Nose after being arrested for drunk driving. The trouble is that he has to team up with a writer whose work he has already demolished (Michèle-Barbara Pelletier).
Thanks for everything
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Set during the holiday season, this dramatic comedy from director Louise Archambault (The time of a summer) relates the adventures of two sisters at the antipodes (played by Julie Perreault and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau) who undertake a road trip across the province to spread their father’s ashes in the Magdalen Islands.
December 23
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Choral film conceived as a kind of Love Actually Quebecois, this romantic comedy written by India Desjardins and directed by Miryam Bouchard relates the adventures of several characters whose destinies intersect on the eve of Christmas Eve. December 23 brings together on screen a host of stars, including Virginie Fortin, François Arnaud, Catherine Brunet, Stéphane Rousseau, Guylaine Tremblay, Michel Barrette and Bianca Gervais.
Once upon a time there were the Boys
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Released in 2013, this dramatic comedy by Richard Goudreau takes us through the Boys’ youth, when Stan and his group of friends took part in an amateur hockey tournament, during the Christmas school holidays, in 1967. The film is full of nostalgia immerses us in the holiday atmosphere of this time with Christmas Eve and the traditional midnight mass.
Fir$
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This comedy by Stéphane Moukarzel transports us into the unusual world of selling Christmas trees in New York. Étienne Galloy plays a young 21-year-old Quebecer without a work permit who must learn to sell trees on a street corner in the Bronx neighborhood, while jabbering in broken English.
My uncle Antoine
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This masterpiece by Claude Jutra, produced in 1970, recreates the atmosphere that reigned in a small mining town in Quebec a few hours before Christmas, in the early 1940s. At that time, Christmas Eve was the only day of the year when factories closed their doors.
