'1,000 kilometers from Christmas': the Grinch in the Pyrenees

2021-12-25T15:38:27.430Z

This parody of hatred of parties mixes, with grace and crafts, sleighs, nougat and living nativity scenes. The recently deceased Verónica Forqué acts as a luxury secondary

It was a

Christmas Carol

, by Charles Dickens, the play that somehow foreshadowed the Grinch, that grumpy, grumpy elf who was born in the late 1950s and hates Christmas and all its paraphernalia.

The Dickensian Mr. Scrooge laid the foundation for a selfish and misanthropic character unable to connect with the Christmas spirit.

An antihero who has long nurtured that commonplace that considers these holidays a terrible nightmare.

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1,000 kilometers from Christmas he

parodies in the key of a romantic comedy that sullen, antifestive and, above all, very ashy feeling, through a character who has everything to make him feel bad: an unfriendly, sieso auditor and, to top it all, with an ancient mustache. Raúl is a thirty-year-old played by Tamar Novas who denies any illusion and associates Christmas with all the misfortunes of his life. He always runs away from the happy holidays, but this year his boss asks him to audit a small family business located in a snowy town in the Pyrenees. What does the company do? To the nougat, peladillas, marzipan and polvorones.

With plenty of work, demonstrated in comedies such as

Sheep do not lose the train,

where he already mixed urban life with rural life,

the series

Shame,

co-directed with Juan Cavestany, Álvaro Fernández Armero makes a film with charm, rhythm and good Secondary choir, among which is one of his latest works the recently deceased Verónica Forqué, to whom

the film

is dedicated

in memoriam

One of the main successes of the film is that kind of

horror vacui,

so characteristic of these parties,

that chases the protagonist and that here extracts all kinds of visual gags about ornaments, clichés and wishes for happiness.

Not to be missed, there is no shortage of reindeer sweaters or cushions with embroidered garlands.

At 1,000 kilometers from Christmas, he

plays the Christmas nightmare crossing traditions and popular comedies, but he does so without losing the local horizon thanks to a kind story whose roots go through a living nativity scene and a sad reality: there is always someone willing to take a slice of the best wishes.