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millionreasonsAlternative Christmas Films, with nary an angel, ghost or rosy-cheek'd child in sight:
Morvern Callar - Morvern's boyfriend commits suicide on Christmas Eve. Instead of calling the police or an ambulance, she hides his death, chops up and then disposes of his body, empties his bank account, publishes his novel under her name, and runs off to Spain.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - the snow is fake, the Santa costumes are pornographic, the reindeers are naked women in cages; it's LA at Xmas time.
Female Trouble - Divine's parents fail to buy him the desired cha-cha heels for a present, so he pushes the Christmas tree onto them, runs away, hitches a ride in a truck and gets pregnant by the trucker. Then it all goes a bit Jean Genet, if Jean Genet had written French Farces.
Morvern Callar - Morvern's boyfriend commits suicide on Christmas Eve. Instead of calling the police or an ambulance, she hides his death, chops up and then disposes of his body, empties his bank account, publishes his novel under her name, and runs off to Spain.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - the snow is fake, the Santa costumes are pornographic, the reindeers are naked women in cages; it's LA at Xmas time.
Female Trouble - Divine's parents fail to buy him the desired cha-cha heels for a present, so he pushes the Christmas tree onto them, runs away, hitches a ride in a truck and gets pregnant by the trucker. Then it all goes a bit Jean Genet, if Jean Genet had written French Farces.
