I have relatives in Australia. They emigrated in the 80s. They’d send Christmas cards that were a weird mixture of summer and winter scenes. They also said that people would spray fake snow around their windows but then hold barbecues. It’s like Australia isn’t sure if it’s a European country or not. I think that’s probably quite a telling confusion.
I lived there for a year and found it culturally weird. It’s a mostly Anglo-Saxon culture, whatever was big in the UK makes it there a couple of years later and yet they do nothing but bitch about the ”poms“.
My favourite Batman movie !
I'd say it's a backdrop to the film and probably complements some of its themes but it is not Christmassy in a Great Movies: Christmas! way. Definitely worth seeing it is excellent - though it is not his debut he directed a number of films before Tangerine, including the also excellent Starlet
