Guillaume Canet

Carion old-fashions the true story of the 1914 Christmas truce into sentimental melodrama....it's easy to imagine the story being told more effectively with less labor.

Carion's film admirably resists overselling the material: it's an adult espionage film, with no comic-book theatrics.

Slyly addresses...how we think and how we consume media, how we tell stories to each other and ourselves, and what we need out of our personal connections.