The Advent Calendar
Once a graceful dancer, Eva (Eugenie Derouand) has been a paraplegic for three years. Her job and her boss are terrible and her love life nonexistent. For her birthday, her best friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier) gives her a gift she brought from Germany, where she is working - an unusual wooden Advent Calendar. But this calendar is not your typical advent calendar - it comes with rules. One is that if you eat one candy, you eat them all. Another is you obey all the rules, or you will die.
As she opens the candy for each new day, Eva is finding that the effects are both good and bad. Is it
possible they will eventually lead to her walking again?
I found this French movie on Shudder and wasn't sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. The calendar says sacrifices must be made if she wants to walk, and Eva very badly wants to walk again. At first she is determined not to hurt anyone, but as the days go by, she is forced to continue to open the calendar at midnight, and she finds herself on the slippery slope of a dark descent. Into what? See for yourself.
I thought Eugenie Derouand was excellent as Eva. The writing was good, so was the direction of Patrick Ridremont. It's definitely worth watching. I'll give this film 4 Stars.
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