Une rose pour Noël

This movie is predictable to a T. It follows the typical romantic comedy recipe where the female lead and male lead are at odds and fall in love in the end. The female lead is your common daddy's girl who likes art, and the male lead is supposed to be this hotshot Mr. Business city boy type who ~~just doesn't understand ART!~~ You pretty much know they're going to end up together as soon as the male lead walks into the room.

Another huge problem is that the movie fails at creating any tension. Okay, so Rose needs to build a parade float because her father is too sick to do it. And if she doesn't make the float on time...what happens? She's just not in the parade? Why wouldn't she be able to do it next year? Why should I care about this float and how it's made?

Part of the movie is just them advertising for help they need to build the float (which begs the question: how has Rose's father has been making this float for a while if he's not getting the same people or amount of people every year to make it, and why is it a problem this year?). This brings in a bunch of side characters who I suppose are adding a little comedy to the film (like how the blonde college girl sneezes a lot while making the float), but all the jokes just fall flat.

There are also some details that the director and crew overlooked while making the film. For example, in the beginning of the movie, Rose is welding something together. She wears the suit and the mask (in a way that hides her face so we can have the clichéd joke where the male lead thinks Rose is a man because he can't see her face and she is doing something some people consider masculine), but she doesn't tie her hair up in a ponytail or bun. (I would've given this movie two more stars if her hair had caught on fire in the middle of the scene.)

Overall, this movie is boring. You know how it's going to end, and the writers don't add anything different or unique to try to make this movie stand out. Give this one a skip.

Even by Hallmark standards, this film is dreadful. Companies do not send liaisons to oversee the structural designs of parade floats. If they did, it wouldn't be a pompous middle management who conducts international business for the company. The dialogue is just horrible and seems like it was written by an amateur. Rachel Boston must not read this scripts or she is obligated to do whatever Hallmark throws her way. Sad.

Until I read another thread on here, I thought I was the only one who thought that Rachel Boston shouted her lines instead of delivering them in a normal voice. Does she believe her audience are all hard of hearing ? with that and her constant wide eyed form of acting, she is always an irritating watch.

HALLMARK, whoever is responsible for the set dressing can they please make the snow look more realistic !! the 'melting' pavement snow is so obviously white sheeting, that one of the characters almost tripped up as her foot caught in the fabric when she was in shot and walking along !!! I did laugh.

The storyline was different and the rest of the cast made it an easy view.

He needs a float for his company she is the maker. They bicker and bicker then suddenly there is romance.

The float prep is interesting. Marc Bendavid and Rachel Boston are the couple.

Not quite enough for a romance movie.

The movie was well done. The writers put in the little things that make a movie interesting and memorable (e.g., a quote from Van Gogh was used, we develop some nick-names, an auction scene). The two main characters Andy "chaos" (Rachel Boston) and Cliff "bulldozer" (Marc Bendavid) were well developed with the supporting cast adding humor and advancing the story well. The focus on the main characters is always a plus for me, so many Christmas movies fail because they needlessly develop the supporting cast too much. Rachel Boston was always there to move the story along with her smile and enthusiasm. I was impressed that the movie was still fresh and exciting right until the end. Michael Kopsa was used well in the key role as the father. I disagree with the 2 previous reviews. This one is worth the watch.