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Movie: Chalet Girl
Genre: Comedy drama
Studio: IFC Films
Cast & Crew: Phil Traill (director); Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Sophia Bush, Brooke Shields, Tamsin Egerton, Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy
Released Date: Oct 14 2011
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It helps that she’s off the hook in needing to play for our sympathies, because Tom Williams’s script lays on the underdog pathos like a slab of hardened treacle: Jones’s Kim was a promising skateboard prodigy, then her mum died in a car crash, then she served fast food, and now she leaps at the chance to be patronised daily and cater to the every need of the ski crowd.
Ed Westwick’s goofy prince is Kim’s ticket to validation, unless we count the wearily obligatory snowboarding subplot, in which a crucial jump goes awry repeatedly because of a hang-up officially diagnosable as Childhood Trauma Flashback Syndrome. Phil Traill’s film could have done with a bit less of this, and more Bill Bailey as Kim’s lovably hopeless dad, extracting still-frozen lasagne from the microwave and sampling it like a lolly.
Somehow, it ends up slaloming along just fine, and Tamsin Egerton continues to corner the market in Sloaney hauteur with extra hot sauce
Movie: Chalet Girl
Genre: Comedy drama
Studio: IFC Films
Cast & Crew: Phil Traill (director); Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Sophia Bush, Brooke Shields, Tamsin Egerton, Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy
Released Date: Oct 14 2011
Movie Trailer:
Reviews:
It helps that she’s off the hook in needing to play for our sympathies, because Tom Williams’s script lays on the underdog pathos like a slab of hardened treacle: Jones’s Kim was a promising skateboard prodigy, then her mum died in a car crash, then she served fast food, and now she leaps at the chance to be patronised daily and cater to the every need of the ski crowd.
Ed Westwick’s goofy prince is Kim’s ticket to validation, unless we count the wearily obligatory snowboarding subplot, in which a crucial jump goes awry repeatedly because of a hang-up officially diagnosable as Childhood Trauma Flashback Syndrome. Phil Traill’s film could have done with a bit less of this, and more Bill Bailey as Kim’s lovably hopeless dad, extracting still-frozen lasagne from the microwave and sampling it like a lolly.
Somehow, it ends up slaloming along just fine, and Tamsin Egerton continues to corner the market in Sloaney hauteur with extra hot sauce
Chalet Girl is all about Felicity Jones, the rising star even more convincing than Carey Mulligan at playing a teenager, despite being 27. The film, a packaged Alpine-slope romcom with Cinderella overtones, keeps threatening to sink into a squishy mulch of inadequately scripted formula, and she keeps buoying it right back up.
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