Les Secrets de Noël

This is a very well directed mini series technically speaking. The scenes are very smooth, the location is nice, the fashbacks etc - everything is very well managed. However, I cant be saying the same thing for the script. It is just a loosy version of American TV movies. Actually, instead of watching this one, go and watch Terms of Endearment if you are into mother daughter relationships. It has great international stars at least and great acting that empowers you. If you lived in Germany and you are exposed to the German language and the German culture, you will also feel like me. This mini - series for me reflects the German attitude towards popular arts. It tries, it achieves with a degree of confidence but it does not deliver. You turn your eyes off saying "na ja". Somehow on the creative spectrum Germans are very origional think of Klaus Kinski, Wim Wenders etc. But when they will do something that is popular, they beat the creativity for the sake of technicality. My verdict - this series has no soul, no character. There is a script, directing and acting. All very technical, all risk averse. Leading everything to be quite average.

I would say Holiday Secrets is a typical Netflix family drama based on flashbacks which bring you back in time and help to look into cupboard in search for family skeletons. I would say too many flashbacks as they made it too difficult to follow the story and distinguish family women from each other, at least until the middle of the episode 2. Which was half of the series in total.

Anyway, the mini series was rather intriguing, well written and well directed. Nice to see the windy Baltic Sea landscape and dune views which made some fresh difference from usual Mediterranean coastline in Netflix shows.

This series touched my heart. The cinematography was marvelous and I was never confused about what was going on, even with the time jumps. Highly recommend this gem!

Nice photography and color pallete nice direction very cold and tragic humor.

No good ideas, normal to good performances.

Bit boring too. I cant see 2nd episode.

The writers did a terrible job on this one. About 10 different stories going12 different directions and totally unbelievable. The only redeeming quality was the seaside and ocean. Otherwise it wasn't worth writing home about.