Wonka (2023)
50KWonka (2023). 1h 56m | PG
“Does chocolate remind you of Christmas? Yes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDoes a Dickensian city and poor people immediately take you back to a Christmas setting? Definitely.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDo musicals recall you good old times with your acquaIntances? Absolutely.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLadies and gentlemen, thatu0026#39;s u0026#39;Wonkau0026#39;! A brilliant movie filled with magic. Chalamet delivers a wonderful performance, whose range of acting hugely widens with this role, from a 1920s clown like Chaplin to a 1950s charming dancer like Gene Kelly.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was especially delighted with the cityu0026#39;s atmosphere, itu0026#39;s a Victorian London-like city. Itu0026#39;s clear that Paul King knows how to bottle Christmas essence, mixing grayish pedestrian streets and brick buildings with goldish open malls. Watching this movie takes you back to the time when you were a child, and you walked hand in hand with your parents watching extravagant shopwindows displaying the finest products on Christmas.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd what about the music? Itu0026#39;s perfect! u0026#39;Oompah Loompah doompety dou0026#39; wonu0026#39;t get out of your head besides the fancy choreographies, every detail and nuance conveys a Christmas ambience. You can even taste the chocolate, slip with the iced flor covered in snow, smell the chestnuts, notice the smoke from the chimneys…nFinally, weu0026#39;re not even un mid-December ans u0026quot;itu0026#39;s beginning to look a lot like Christmasu0026quot; so please get yourself a hot chocolate mug get together with family and enjoy watching u0026#39;Wonkau0026#39; because it will become a Christmas classic.”
