Last Christmas

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Galuppo, Mia (28 November 2018). "Michelle Yeoh Joins Henry Golding in Paul Feig's 'Last Christmas' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 28 November 2018. Kate works at a Christmas shop as an elf, working for a woman who goes by "Santa" (Michelle Yeoh), who sees potential in Kate but is annoyed at her constant screw-ups. While at work, Marta visits Kate and forces her to step outside and talk to their mom, even though Kate doesn't want to. Later on, Kate meets a man named Tom Webster (Henry Golding). Kate finds him charming, if not a bit odd. Their moment is then ruined by a bird pooping on Kate's face. DeFore, John (6 November 2019). " 'Last Christmas': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 8 November 2019. Lenker, Maureen Lee (17 July 2019). "Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in love! Get a sneak peek at Last Christmas". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 3 February 2020. Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. November 2019 . Retrieved 26 November 2019.

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Last Christmas is a 2019 romantic comedy film directed by Paul Feig and written by Bryony Kimmings and Emma Thompson, who co-wrote the story with her husband, Greg Wise. Named after the 1984 song of the same name and inspired by the music of George Michael and Wham!, the film stars Emilia Clarke as a disillusioned Christmas store worker who forms a relationship with a mysterious man ( Henry Golding) and begins to fall for him; Thompson and Michelle Yeoh also star.Katarina "Kate" Andrich, a young aspiring singer, bounces around between her friends’ places, and has a dead-end job as an elf at a year-round Christmas shop in Central London, whose strict but good-hearted Chinese owner calls herself "Santa". Whilst at work, she notices a man outside staring upward and strikes up a conversation, learning that his name is Tom Webster and his oft-repeated life wisdom is to "look up" for things that others seldom observe.

Kroll, Justin (26 October 2018). "Paul Feig's 'Last Christmas' Dated, Will Feature Unreleased George Michael Music". Variety . Retrieved 29 December 2021. Kate joins her family for dinner. Marta makes things tense by suggesting that Kate always acts helpless after the illness, while Kate outs Marta by saying that she has a girlfriend named Alba (Jade Anouka). Petra and Ivan are also called out for, respectively, being smothering and also barely being home since Ivan works as a cab driver, but Kate thinks he takes the hours that he does to get away from his family. Gleiberman, Owen (6 November 2019). "Film Review: 'Last Christmas' ". Variety . Retrieved 29 December 2021.After an unsuccessful singing audition, Kate sees Tom again and they go for a walk, where he charms her with his unusual observations of London. Upon being evicted by her oldest friend, Kate is forced to return home to her parents, both Yugoslavian immigrants. Her mother Petra suffers from depression, and her father Ivan, a former lawyer, works as a minicab driver as he cannot afford to retrain to practice law in the United Kingdom. Kate feels suffocated by her mother, who dotes on her while neglecting Kate's older sister, Marta, a successful lawyer who is a lesbian but hides her sexual orientation from their parents.

Outside of work, Kate tries to crash with her friend Jenna (Ritu Arya) and her husband Rufus (Ansu Kabia), the latter not being too fond of Kate after she accidentally burned his model ship. Kate tries to make an audition for a theater production, but she arrives late and is forced to sing a Capella, and the judges dismiss her. After some initial confusion, he reveals that the previous owner was killed in a bicycle accident last Christmas, and Kate realizes that Tom was the organ donor whose heart she received. Going to the small garden, Tom's favorite place, Kate encounters him again. She realizes he is a ghost, he says his heart "was always going to be yours" and asks her in parting to look after it. The bench on which they sat on their visits to the garden is revealed to be his memorial bench. In addition, Andrew Ridgeley, from the duo Wham!, whose song " Last Christmas" is instrumental to the plot, has an uncredited cameo appearance in the audience at the end of the film. BFI Weekend Box Office 15/11/2019 - 17/11/2019". British Film Institute. 17 November 2019 . Retrieved 25 November 2019.

The Christmas celebration transitions to summer, where a visibly healthier Kate is seen writing in her diary on Tom’s memorial bench in the garden to which he introduced her. Smiling and happy, Kate looks up, as Tom always advised. Charles Bramesco (6 November 2019). "A coal-lump twist can't dampen the fleabaggy charms of Last Christmas". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 29 December 2021. Last Christmas was filmed from 26 November 2018 to February 2019. [8] [9] Filming locations included Piccadilly Circus, the Strand, Regent Street, the Thames Embankment, Covent Garden (where the Christmas shop is located), West London Film Studios, St Mary's Bryanston Square Church, Marylebone and the Phoenix Garden. [10] [11] Freeman, Hadley (7 December 2019). "Emma Thompson's ludicrous Last Christmas is the perfect Brexit festive movie". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 August 2022.