Christmas, Again (2014)

A few years ago, I watched Tree Man a documentary about Christmas tree sellers in New York City. I’d never before experienced the type of tree lot of the ‘middle of the sidewalk’ variety that seems ubiquitous in the city and I find them fascinating. In this film, Kentucker Audley is a multi-year seasonal worker at one of these lots. That is the film. It is slow and I gave up on it the first time I tried to watch, but I appreciated it more on my next viewing. It almost feels like a documentary, focusing on one lonely man and the fleeting moments as he momentarily steps into people’s lives as they buy their tree for the year and then steps back out maybe to be seen next year but just as likely not.