Joyeux Noel

I love a lot of things about Christmastime, and one thing that sounds silly but that I look forward to in particular are the Christmas movies. I really like the funny, cute ones like Elf, White Christmas, A Christmas Story and so on, but there are two that are much more meaningful that I must watch every year. The first is It's A Wonderful Life, and no explanation is really needed there; it's a classic in every sense of the word. But the second is one that I don't think as many people have seen. The English title is Merry Christmas.

This morning, the score from the movie somehow popped into my head, and it made me so unbelievably excited to go home and watch it. The movie is just an incredible heartbreaking and hopeful mix of all that can be good about a movie, with stunning music and a beautifully sad story, and I'm running out of words to describe how I feel about it. I think is it safe to say that the rest of my family feels the same way, since after first seeing it my mom bought copies for us and all of her siblings, as well as the soundtrack (which I am listening to right now). Also, we named our cat Nestor after the cat in the movie.

I just want to whole world to see it.

Here is at least the preview, which doesn't really do it justice, but all the clips I found on Youtube had no subtitles. (The movie is French, but there is also English and German spoken throughout. Don't let that throw you off.) I actually teared up a little just watching the trailer, and I don't really ever cry. I dare you to watch the movie totally dry-eyed.

If anyone is interested in watching it, I will watch it with you. After we make cookies. Because I like cookies.