“Silent Night” – If only [MOVIE REVIEW]
Ho! Ho! Ho! Just in time for the holidays writer/director Camille Griffin gives us a depressing look at the end of times. Nell and Simon have gathered together their oldest friends for the annual Christmas celebration at their lush estate in the countryside. Everything is decorated as perfectly as you’d imagine an upper class English family would require. Something is in the air, though, and it isn’t sugar plums. Nell and Simon’s children amuse themselves with their usual reindeer games. Precociously mature Art and his less gifted twin brothers Thomas and Hardy (no doubt wishful thinking on the part of the parents as there is nothing even vaguely romantic, bucolic, or intellectual about those two) take turns swearing and finding new ways to disturb the peace. They are soon joined by Kitty, the privileged and equally intellectually challenged daughter of Tony and Sandra. Other friends arrive. Bella with her same sex partner Alex are soon joined by James and his much younger pregnant girlfriend Sophie. Sophie is less than enthusiastic about participating because at last year’s function she was seated at the “children’s table.” This will be their last Christmas together. The Russians…
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