For some of us, Noël remains definitely associated with Lindsay Lohan in the hilarious
Mean Girls
(
Lolita despite me
in French), teen movie with underrated genius in which the Plastics, the group she then formed with her three acolytes Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried wiggle in red latex miniskirts on
Jingle Bell Rock
.
If you haven't seen the movie, here's the clip.
It was 2004 and the film had propelled Lindsay to international stardom.
But since then, the magic has subsided.
The actress made headlines, but for her escapades in the nightclub and her addiction problems, despite herself becoming an unglamorous icon of the 2000s, just like the Paris Hiltons and other Britneys.
Made up of a few ups and many downs, her career and health lately involve a short-lived foray into reality TV with the show
Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club
as well as, more recently, a podcast called
The Lohdown with Lindsay Lohan
.
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Now aged 36, she is attempting a return to the screen here with
Noël falls à pic (Falling for Christmas
in its original version) which therefore marks her first film in three years - and first leading role in a comedy film in thirteen years. for this former Disney child, who rocked our youth with the essential
Freaky Friday
or
The Parent Trap
.
True to the syrupy spirit of Christmas comedies, here she plays Sierra Belmont, the spoiled and superficial heiress of a hotel magnate, who finds herself amnesiac after a skiing accident.
While recovering, she is taken in by the local hunk, a lodge owner (Chord Overstreet, seen on
Glee
) who seems to cultivate simplicity and lives alone with his daughter.
Our heroine is then in search of identity and values and finally likes to live this life without excess which consists in making her own bed, which until now did not go without saying.
The timely Christmas
cast
also includes George Young, Jack Wagner, as well as Lindsay's younger sister, Aliana Lohan.
All the elements seem to come together for the disaster: the seen and revised pitch heralding a lazy scenario, the worn-out cliché of the brainless, misunderstood and nonchalant city-dweller, and very bad bling taste (notably through an elegant pink chapka very relative).
A somewhat indigestible mixture, just like the values that this film seems to carry, coming from another time.
On video, this 2013 interview of Lindsay Lohan by David Letterman is now unbearable to watch
The Christmas movie will be broadcast from Thursday, November 10 on Netflix.
He will obviously meet his audience, and will even be a great success if he rides the wave of an assumed kitsch.
So maybe
Falling for Christmas
won't fall flat.