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Un chant de Noël

Original title: Christmas Carol: The Movie
  • 2001
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  • 1h 21m
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Un chant de Noël (2001)
Old bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Simon Callow) who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
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Old bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Simon Callow) who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.Old bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Simon Callow) who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.Old bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Simon Callow) who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.

  • Director
    • Jimmy T. Murakami
  • Writers
    • Piet Kroon
    • Robert Llewellyn
    • Charles Dickens
  • Stars
    • Simon Callow
    • Kate Winslet
    • Nicolas Cage
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.4/10
    2.3K
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    • Director
      • Jimmy T. Murakami
    • Writers
      • Piet Kroon
      • Robert Llewellyn
      • Charles Dickens
    • Stars
      • Simon Callow
      • Kate Winslet
      • Nicolas Cage
    • 23User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Simon Callow
    Simon Callow
    • Scrooge
    • (voice)
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    Kate Winslet
    Kate Winslet
    • Belle
    • (voice)
    Nicolas Cage
    Nicolas Cage
    • Marley
    • (voice)
    Jane Horrocks
    Jane Horrocks
    • Ghost of Christmas Past
    • (voice)
    Michael Gambon
    Michael Gambon
    • Ghost of Christmas Present
    • (voice)
    Rhys Ifans
    Rhys Ifans
    • Bob Cratchit
    • (voice)
    Juliet Stevenson
    Juliet Stevenson
    • Mrs. Cratchit
    • (voice)
    • …
    Robert Llewellyn
    Robert Llewellyn
    • Old Joe
    • (voice)
    Iain Jones
    • Fred
    • (voice)
    Colin McFarlane
    Colin McFarlane
    • Fezziwig
    • (voice)
    Beth Winslet
    Beth Winslet
    • Fan
    • (voice)
    Arthur Cox
    Arthur Cox
    • Dr. Lambert
    • (voice)
    Keith Wickham
    Keith Wickham
    • Mr. Leach
    • (voice)
    • …
    Joss Sanglier
    • Choir Master
    • (voice)
    Sarah Kayte Foster
    • Mouse
    • (voice)
    • (as Sarah Annison)
    Rosalie MacCraig
    • Mouse
    • (voice)
    Aaron Basacombe
    • Child
    • (voice)
    Bradley Kelly
    • Child
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Jimmy T. Murakami
    • Writers
      • Piet Kroon
      • Robert Llewellyn
      • Charles Dickens
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    3TheLittleSongbird

    Two or three good things can't save this film from being so dull and lifeless

    I just want to start off saying I adore the story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it is timeless and alongside The Nutcracker it is for me the quintessential Christmas story. There are some good, great even, versions of this classic, the Alastair Sim film(up there with It's a Wonderful Life) as the ultimate Christmas film, the George C. Scott film and Muppet Christmas Carol.

    I wish I could add this film to the list of great versions, but sadly, I can't. For me, this is the worst version. However, it is not a complete embarrassment. Simon Callow is good as Charles Dickens and as Ebeneezer Scrooge, and the live-action opening scene is one of two good scenes the other being the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come sequence, Kate Winslet is charming and touching as Belle and of the soundtrack(which I quite liked) What If and the Charlotte Church song are the standouts.

    I really wanted to like it, but I did wish Christmas Carol:The Movie- the ghastly, uninspired title alone is just one of the problems- wasn't so lifeless and dull. Two things especially made it so. One was the quality of the animation, the look of the film does look drab with flat colours, with the background art lacking fluidity and the character designs looking quite dated. The other is the storytelling despite the core of the story being there, the fact that there were changes didn't bother me actually, it's just that some especially the anthropomorphic mice were unnecessary, overly cute and interrupted the flow of the story far too much. The romantic subplot took too long to get going too, and the Walking in the air-like sequences are some of the film's better scenes visually but they too drag the story down to a lesser extent.

    While there is the odd dialogue lifted from the book, most of it feels dumbed down and juvenile as if to appeal more to children or those who haven't read the story, which is what I felt similarly about most of the subplots. The voice cast Callow and Winslet aside are disappointing. They are talented but their dialogue is lacking. Jane Horrocks and Michael Gambon are fine actors and do fit into their roles well enough, it's just that the writing and storytelling disallows them into doing anything particularly special with them. The worst by far is Nicolas Cage, who doesn't work at all as Jacob Marley sounding very bored and monotone throughout.

    In conclusion, two or three good things aren't enough to save this film. 3/10 Bethany Cox
    4IonicBreezeMachine

    A strangely sloppy and inconsistent take on the Dickens classic that doesn't add much to the crowd of adaptations

    Ebeneezer Scrooge (Simon Callow) is a cold hearted miser who makes no secret of his contempt for the holidays as he runs his moneylending services with no room for compassion or humanity. Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley (Nicolas Cage) who is now condemned to wander the Earth in the shackles he forged in life and tells Scrooge that a similar fate awaits him with an even longer and heavier chain. Marley offers Scrooge a chance to avoid his fate by telling him three ghosts, the Ghosts of Christmas Past (Jane Horrocks), Present (Michael Gambon), and Future who show Scrooge his long forgotten past, its effects on those in the here and now, and what may happen if he continues on his course unaltered.

    Christmas Carol: The Movie is a 2001 animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol directed by Jimmy Murakami who'd previously worked as a supervising animator on the iconic short The Snowman as well as directing When the Wind Blows. The film was released in the UK in 2001 where it underperformed making a mere $200,000 against an estimated 6 million Pound budget and with the exception of Norway the film went direct-to-video elsewhere including the United States where it would be released by MGM in 2003 with little fanfare. What critics who actually bothered to see the film were primarily negative in their reception and to this day the film remains one of the more forgotten and obscure adaptations of this material as there's really not much here that wasn't done better in either prior adaptations or ones that came afterwards.

    While there is a certain appeal to some parts of the animation per the standards Murakami set for himself in The Snowman and When the Wind Blows, the animation itself feels like it's slightly sloggy with the characters' motions often feeling as though they're in motion through molasses. There's also some instances where the character designs fall into the uncanny valley with some attempts to make the humans more realistic looking resulting in some really unappealing aesthetics such as with the ghost of Christmas Past. In terms of the writing, the film does hit many of the major beats of the story, but issues with the pacing, placement of certain scenes, or added elements end up undermining the integrity of the narrative. The movie takes a really long time before it actually even gets to the arrival of the ghosts with the opening 30 minutes dedicated to establishing what Scrooge's lost love Belle played by Kate Winslet is doing with a hospital, antics involving two mute mice characters to whom Scrooge is uncharacteristically nice to, and there's no real buildup to the appearance of Jacob Marley whose appearance now comes before the collectors for the poor in a strange decision. Once we go through the three ghosts everything feels oddly compressed and rushed but also like we're going nowhere as there's a lengthy bit of animation done in the same style as The Snowman flight scene where Scrooge and the ghost of Christmas present sprinkle goodwill from the ghost's torch rather than actually looking at the present. But easily the biggest failure of the film lies at the end where the cathartic ending where Scrooge mends his ways feels trimmed down considerably and is lacking in the jovial spirit one typically associates with that ending.

    Christmas Carol: The Movie is a not particularly impressive take on this story and there's a reason most aren't even aware of its existence. Aside from the "wha?" factor of having Nicolas Cage voice Marley this version of A Christmas Carol isn't particularly well told or well-acted and the animation doesn't do much service to this material.
    7missrljane

    Much better than one would expect

    There is nothing wrong with changing a story so long as you admit to it. So unlike many children's films where a classic is ruined and the child grows up in ignorance and never knows the difference, this film has the charming idea of having live action Charles Dickens go to America and tell the story to an audience explaining it isn't quite the same as how he wrote it in the book, thus growing curiosity and encouraging children to read the true classics of this world. The only real fault with this film is its ghastly title (and possible when the child of ignorance disintegrates, being too scary for children). I admit as a film student I had very low expectations of ANOTHER adaption of A Christmas Carol but was for once very pleasantly surprised and refreshingly, no one bursts into song and no animals talk in this film. The acting is very good and the voice talents obviously cared about this job. How Scrooge acts after the ghost of Christmas Future and how he makes the Christmas miracles are more realistic than I've seen in any adaption for a long time. Things don't happen with a snap of the fingers and this children's film truly does give hope to the most desperate of souls.
    6Theo Robertson

    A Christmas Parable And Prophetic Too

    This starts off with a live action sequence where Charles Dickens played by Simon Callow attends a venue in Boston where he relates the story of A Christmas CAROL . I wonder if Callow could have believed that a few years later he'd be reprising his role as Dickens where he attends a similar type of speaking tour in Cardiff in 1869 where one of the audience is a corpse taken over by a gaseous alien race called The Gelth ? Check out The DOCTOR WHO story The Unquiet Dead to see what I'm blabbering on about . It's certainly very interesting to see how the scenes from the two are very similar in atmosphere

    As you might expect this a straight forward retelling of A Christmas CAROL in animated form so if you're expecting lines like " Pity The Gelth - We want your flesh " you're going to be bitterly disappointed . Some people may complain that the story concentrates far too much on a social political subtext but Dickens didn't write A Christmas CAROL as a ghost story , he wrote it as a story of redemption and this shines through , though perhaps a little too obviously to be truly successful . My only real complaint is that the mice are a serious distraction to the story telling
    Victor Field

    Where are Darcel, Pam, Beverly, Jamila, Cooley, Mark, Eileen and Nicole when you really need them?

    Darcel, Pam etc are - or were - the Solid Gold Dancers ("Solid Gold" was an American pop music show in the 1980s); in the movie "Scrooged" six of them (guess which two were absent) made a cameo appearance as part of the cast of Bill Murray's TV version of the classic Charles Dickens story... and there's the biggest problem with "Christmas Carol: The Movie" right there. Not the presence of leggy, gorgeous American girls in skimpy attire - such a thing could only have benefitted this movie - but the stunningly definitive and frankly ignorant title; so all the other versions of the novel (and there have been quite a few down the years, featuring casts from Alastair Sim through Henry Winkler [in the TV movie "An American Christmas Carol"] to Michael Caine in "The Muppet Christmas Carol" - not to mention the musical "Scrooge," at least two animated versions, and countless episodes of TV shows borrowing the whole story, like "WKRP In Cincinnati" and "The Odd Couple" to name but two) don't count then?

    For a movie to live up to such a title, it would have to be the best version ever, and this isn't. It isn't helped by having live-action bookends of the great man (played here by Simon Callow, also the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge) performing a dramatic reading of his book in Boston. Or by having a pair of mice throughout the movie as the closest things to soulmates the man has (cute animals should be left to Disney and Disney alone). Or by animation that's depressingly crude for the most part (it all looks like a poor 1970s TV show, with the exception of the journeys the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present take our "hero" on, where the movie really does come to life for a bit). Or by Piet Kroon and Robert "Kryten" Llewellyn's script, or Julian Nott's score (pains me to say it, but the songs from Kate Winslet and Charlotte Church are the highpoints).

    And as for Nicolas Cage as Jacob Marley... not since the late lamented Lorenzo Music did Peter Venkman on "The Real Ghostbusters" has there been such a shockingly bad case of cartoon miscasting. And some people wonder why so many of us love Pixar.

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    • Trivia
      Michael Gambon (Ghost of Christmas Present) also played Scrooge in the 2010 Doctor Who (2005) Christmas special A Christmas Carol (2010).
    • Goofs
      Scrooge collects a sheaf of papers regarding debts that he's taken over but when he meets up with Joe, his debt collector, instead of giving him the papers he gives him a book.
    • Quotes

      Ebenezer Scrooge: Cratchit, that slovenly, good for nothing... Even a tiny mouse is more tidy!

    • Alternate versions
      Some DVD versions omit the live action theatrical opening and ending featuring Simon Callow as Charles Dickens. The Region 1 DVD from MGM has both scenes as a supplement in the special features section.
    • Connections
      Featured in Making 'Christmas Carol: The Movie' (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      What If I
      Performed by Kate Winslet

      Produced by Steve Mac

      Engineered by Chris Laws and Matt Howe at Rokstone Studios, London

      Assistant Daniel Pursey

      Written by Steve Mac and Wayne Hector

      Published by Rokstone Music/Universal Music/Universal Music

      Except USA: Rokstone Music/Songs of Windswept/Universal Music

      Used by kind permission of Universal Music Publishing Ltd

      Rokstone Musice LTD/Universal Music Publishing Ltd 2001

      2001 Illuminated Films (Christmas Carol) Ltd

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    • Release date
      • December 7, 2001 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Germany
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Christmas Carol: The Movie
    • Production companies
      • Illuminated Film Company
      • FilmFour
      • MBP (Germany)
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      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $266,475
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      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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