[FILM]
SILENT NIGHT
To health and, er, happiness! Keira Knightley and co make the most of their last supper.
★★★
OUT 3 DECEMBER CERT TBC / 92 MINS
DIRECTOR Camille Griffin
CAST Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis
PLOT A group of old university friends gather at Nell (Knightley) and Simon’s (Goode) country abode to partly celebrate the festive season but also simply be together when, sometime after Boxing Day, a toxic cloud will blow in and kill them all.
THIS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Christmas caper could easily be called Fuck’d Actually. A sometimes uneasy melding of Peter’s Friends and Melancholia, writer-director Camille Griffin’s debut starts with weak Yuletide yuks before deepening into an end-of-the-world drama, as a bunch of besties wrestle with how to spend the remaining few hours of their life. As such, Silent Night (the filmmakers must be pissed Last Christmas was taken as a title) argues that the world ends not with a bang but with a Michael Bublé festive hit.