When progressive young minister David Richmond (Hans Matheson) arrives in the picture-postcard 19th century English village of Gladbury he finds himself fighting against the old ways. Their champion is the village candlemaker who - legend has it - is visited every 25 years by an angel who grants a miracle. However, David finds himself with an unlikely ally in the sceptical Emily Barstow (Samantha Barks).
- 10/20/2014
- Sky Movies
A real Christmas miracle would make every copy of this movie spontaneously burst into flames
The urgent question of when Susan Boyle will give us her cinema debut has been settled. She makes a truly extraordinary appearance in this film, not just singing but acting, too, playing a churchwoman with the voice of an angel in a stilted, treacly, and, frankly, bizarre tale of yuletide miracles. It's a movie with the whiff of an old copy of the People's Friend, discovered under a pile of Grazias at the dentist. Every 20 minutes or so, Boyle is allowed on to say a line, which she does weirdly quietly, as if talking in her sleep. Her facial expression never changes. And all the professional actors around her look stunned, like those Dallas cops when Jack Ruby stepped forward to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. The setting is the quaint, imaginary village of Gladbury, an...
The urgent question of when Susan Boyle will give us her cinema debut has been settled. She makes a truly extraordinary appearance in this film, not just singing but acting, too, playing a churchwoman with the voice of an angel in a stilted, treacly, and, frankly, bizarre tale of yuletide miracles. It's a movie with the whiff of an old copy of the People's Friend, discovered under a pile of Grazias at the dentist. Every 20 minutes or so, Boyle is allowed on to say a line, which she does weirdly quietly, as if talking in her sleep. Her facial expression never changes. And all the professional actors around her look stunned, like those Dallas cops when Jack Ruby stepped forward to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. The setting is the quaint, imaginary village of Gladbury, an...
- 12/13/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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