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Christmas at the Chalet
Movie

Christmas at the Chalet

2023 • Unknown

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

When ex TV host and socialite Lex finds herself faced with the possibility of spending Christmas sharing a luxury chalet with her son, ex husband and his new girlfriend, she volunteers to work in the chalet to avoid things getting too close to home, while documenting her every move for a new wave of followers loving this new chapter of her life.

Overall Series Review

Christmas at the Chalet is a festive, light-hearted romantic comedy centered on a woman’s personal and professional reinvention. The film follows Lex Riley, a former TV host, who avoids a confrontation with her ex-husband by taking a job as a chalet girl while simultaneously launching a new career as a social media influencer. The narrative focuses primarily on Lex's journey of midlife self-discovery and finding new romance. It contains traditional holiday settings and themes of self-worth. The story features a central feminist theme of female professional fulfillment and independence, contrasted against the incompetence of her ex-husband. Outside of this gender dynamic, the film avoids heavy ideological conflict, focusing on a conventional holiday romance structure.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

Character merit guides the protagonist's success as she reinvents herself as a chalet girl and influencer. The narrative focuses on personal drama and career ambition rather than on race, immutable characteristics, or systemic oppression. The main conflicts are professional and relational, judged on the content of the characters' actions.

Oikophobia1/10

The film operates within a traditional framework, celebrating the cozy, festive setting of a Western ski chalet and the family-oriented holiday of Christmas. The narrative respects classic Western institutions like the family unit, even one in transition, and does not frame the culture as corrupt.

Feminism6/10

The female lead is a central figure whose journey is defined by 'midlife self-discovery' and career fulfillment as she forges a new path as an influencer, independent of her roles as a wife or primary caretaker. The ex-husband is portrayed as an incompetent 'jerk' who habitually fails, serving as a foil to the successful female lead. The new male love interest is reserved and closed off until the active, charismatic female protagonist 'loosens him up,' placing the woman in the role of the more fully realized character.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers entirely on a normative structure, dealing with the aftermath of a heterosexual divorce and the pursuit of a new, traditional male-female romance. There is no presence of alternative sexual ideology, deconstruction of the nuclear family unit as an oppressive concept, or instruction on gender theory.

Anti-Theism1/10

As a Christmas movie, the film embraces the positive, festive elements of the season, including traditional holiday activities like baking and decorating. There is no evidence of anti-religious sentiment, demonization of Christian characters, or promotion of moral relativism as a philosophical tenet.