"I Actually Feel Like the Firefly Was Caught in the Jar": Tyler Taormina on His Cannes-Premiering Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

Whether the sprawling fantasia that is Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve in Miller's Point proves heartwarmingly reflective or personally destabilizing in its near-ethnographic study of American holiday ritual will depend, largely, on the composition and size of your own Xmas memories. It's a strength of the film, however, that Taormina's expansive canvas allows for -- and incorporates -- the whole range of emotions that the theater of Christmas can produce, from the giddiness of an overstimulated ...