When a dispersed family meets for the dinner of Christmas in a film of holidays, you can be sure that more than turkey will be been useful. To rest with the table becomes a forum to be acted outside of the competitions of child of same parents, parental disappointments and general dissatisfactions with regard to the reports/ratios, work and the life.Nothing as the holidays is latest of these naked-all saga family. But with the assistance of a cast iron animated and a torsion on the formula, it seems fresh and attracting - as a Christmas present you didn 't know that you wanted but are magic to receive.
Torsion is that the family of Rodriguez is Porto Rican and lives in a Porto Rican vicinity of Chicago. Vacances is spread with a beat of Salsa and rates/rhythms of reggae.
Traditions of their native soil with glare are recreated by director Alfredo De Villa. The best is a habit among carolers of Christmas: Only after their neighbors serenade them and are invited inside for rum and them except D '� uvre is Rodriguezes allowed to join caroling. Vacances shows the clan of Rodriguez the 'similarity of S to other families while celebrating its differences.
Heat sometimes and affectionately lensed, holidays with the obvious affection for the cap of park of Humboldt and its vibrating Hispanic heritage are merry scenes of cooking, song, dance and neighbors ravelling by the streets. But the film needs a history much fresher and stronger, worthy of its gifted actors. Instead of that, it creates phantoms of films of Christmas beyond that, namely the stone of family, which also exclaimed one tightened woman of business-and disease-in a fam of the 'celebrations of S.
