“Nobody cares that you’re happy. They want you to have your own family. The only problem my mother has is me, I’m not married and have no partner”, says Gianna looking at the camera, in a documentary, during the first minutes of I hate Christmasthe series that Netflix released this month.
The Italian romantic comedy is a remake of Christmas at homethe Norwegian series that the streaming platform released in 2019. In this case, the setting where Gianna (Pilar Fogliati) and his family It’s not the Nordic countries, but the beautiful Venice. The city will be where this 30-year-old nurse looks for love (or something close) after her last breakup three years ago.
Pressured by her family, mainly by a strict motherGianna lies that she has a boyfriend and that she will introduce him at Christmas dinner. The series begins with a challenge: find someone 24 days before christmas eve.
The scenes take place between family reunions, meeting his friends and working days at the hospital. Gianna Start with a variety of old-fashioned dating and apps. “I’m desperate, but not desperate enough to use Tinder,” she says in one of the episodes, which she won’t do later.
If there is anything we can’t ask I hate Christmas it is originality. He doesn’t intend to invent the wheel, because that vehicle was already made years ago, with good results. Is called Christmas comedies and there are hundreds of examples in the audiovisual industry. What is interesting – and what can make the hours in front of the screen pleasant – is the how to tell a christmas story.
Gianna’s story is the central axis of the series, but the script is built in a choral way, with the life of its environment and with supporting characters who never stop being archetypes, but are lovable at times.
Here they are -very Italian- the clerk of a fishmonger in love with his mother, the boyfriend who sends her a hundred roses, the young man who has just graduated who falls in love with her and the friends who support her (and sometimes not so much). Y Venice, shown not as a postcardbut as the place where these people go about their daily lives.
I hate Christmas It’s still a traditional rom-com with good actors, but Gianna allows herself to speak of love as an “overrated” feeling., by the notion of a perfect life exacerbated in date and by the environment that thinks their life is easy. When she says that she has a lot of work, her sister replies: “You will know fatigue when you have children”.
The Series it is also supported by Gianna’s humor, who seeks complicity in his gaze towards the camera. Her character has an air—maybe it’s just a slight breeze—a Lots of fleasbut without so much acidity or speed, because it’s Christmas and everything needs to be softer.
Except for the clichéd series and movies with this theme and a hasty ending, I hate Christmas He knows what he’s doing. It’s beautiful, painless, and has fun moments. That’s no small thing for these hectic end-of-year days.
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Qualification: Good
Comedy protagonists: Pilar Fogliati, Beatrice Arnera and Fiorenza Pieri Direction: Davide Mardegan and Clemente De Muro Problem: Six episodes (half hour) on Netflix.
Source: Clarin
