We rather enjoyed this. The story was written by Emma Thompson and Greg Wise, the screenplay by Thompson and Bryony Kimmings.
Emilia Clarke brings her usual effervescence to her role as a useless and clumsy nut who works as an elf in a Christmas store run by 'Santa' Michelle Yeoh. Parents are former Yugoslavian immigrants Emma Thompson and Boris Isakovic and Lydia Leonard is the aggressive sister. Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) is the elusive nice guy. Liked the two WPCs also, Laura Evelyn and Ingrid Oliver.
It's all threaded together with George Michael songs (and Emilia sings her own version of Jingle Bells). And there are some interesting London locations, such as 'Fat Man's Squeeze' - though this doesn't actually exist. Well, not in London, anyway. And Cheshire Street, East London (his flat). Some of the Christmas nick-nacks are funny.
Photographed by John Schwartzman.
I don't quite know why we hadn't made its acquaintance before.
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