The latest in the lucrative but lowbrow film franchise has come under attack for enjoying art-house status tax breaks
With a lightweight storyline about two old flames renewing their acquaintance against a festive Hollywood backdrop, Christmas in Beverly Hills is not your obvious classic of Italian cinema. Yet this lowbrow yuletide tale has sparked an unholy row in the nation of Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini after it was revealed it had benefited from a special art-house status that entitled the makers to lucrative government tax breaks.
The film, directed by Neri Parenti, is one of eight movies in the long-running "Christmas in ..." franchise, which also include 2002's Christmas On the Nile, 2004's Christmas in Miami and 2008's Christmas in Rio. Recounting an unlikely reunion on the streets of Los Angeles between gigolo Carlo and Cristina, a woman he abandoned when she was pregnant 17 years earlier, it has been a...
With a lightweight storyline about two old flames renewing their acquaintance against a festive Hollywood backdrop, Christmas in Beverly Hills is not your obvious classic of Italian cinema. Yet this lowbrow yuletide tale has sparked an unholy row in the nation of Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini after it was revealed it had benefited from a special art-house status that entitled the makers to lucrative government tax breaks.
The film, directed by Neri Parenti, is one of eight movies in the long-running "Christmas in ..." franchise, which also include 2002's Christmas On the Nile, 2004's Christmas in Miami and 2008's Christmas in Rio. Recounting an unlikely reunion on the streets of Los Angeles between gigolo Carlo and Cristina, a woman he abandoned when she was pregnant 17 years earlier, it has been a...
- 12/29/2009
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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