NB2000 Review of The Flint Street Nativity

The Flint Street Nativity (1999 TV Movie)

Should be shown every Christmas (spoilers)

[28 January 2003]

Funny doesn't even begin to describe this. The cast are so brilliant as little children about to do their Christmas play. They act exactly like children. The way they act with each other is brilliant. I especially liked the way the Angel Gabriel kept switching between being best friends the Wise (wo)man and the other Angel. The way she'd suddenly drop one and take the other and then just as suddenly switch back was extremely funny. All the cast were brilliant. I especially liked the scene afterwards where the parents are having drinks. The father of the shepherd who brought the torch for the fire telling one of the mothers that he measured how far the beam of light stretched. "Then some bloke came along and knicked it, but I could see him. I could see him knicking it." All brilliant.