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Film Brain spends Christmas in Long Island in a bunch of strangers in a very peculiar festive ensemble comedy-drama that genuinely has no real plot, just the atmosphere of the season, I guess.

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00:00If you spend Christmas Eve in Miller's Point, then you'll unwrap what I would describe as the

00:03first festive film entirely made out of vibes. Set in the 2000s, an extended Long Island family

00:09spend one last Christmas together before they sell their ancestral home. Director Tyler Tormina

00:15definitely replicates the hyper-specific vibe of being at a family Christmas gathering with

00:19constant non-stop music and a lot of people that you sort of half-recognise and how that feels

00:24very strange and surreal but also has a deep element of melancholy because a lot of the

00:29snatched conversations we hear are about putting their mother into a care home. There's not really

00:33a story or a plot nor is there a resolution by the end, it's just a collection of bits. The

00:38teenagers sneak out to cause trouble on the town, Francesca Scorsese and Elsie Fisher are into each

00:44other and producer Michael Cera and Greg Turkington play two comedy cops that might also be into each

00:51other. I couldn't connect or relate to this at all and I just found it disjointed and piecemeal

00:56like I was spending Christmas with a bunch of strangers that I found a bit irritating.

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (REVIEW) | Projector Shorts | The first "all vibes" Christmas film

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