Bitter Christmas vs My Week with Maisy
My Week with Maisy has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.4/10 for Bitter Christmas). My Week with Maisy is the shorter watch at 18m compared with 1h 52m. My Week with Maisy is the older of the two (2024 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bitter Christmas
My Week with Maisy| Bitter Christmas | My Week with Maisy | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.4/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 52m | 18m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | Spain | – |
| Director | Pedro Almodóvar | Mika Simmons |
| Main cast | Milena Smit, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rossy de Palma, Bárbara Lennie, Quim Gutiérrez | MyAnna Buring, Joanna Lumley, Poppy Gilbert, Ellie-Mae Siame, Adrian Christopher |
Synopsis
Bitter Christmas
In 2025 Spain, a celebrated film director struggles to write the screenplay for an autofictional film set in 2004 Spain about an unsuccessful movie director turned director of commercials who suffers a panic attack that forces her to take a break by visiting the Canary Islands, where she begins work on a new film.
My Week with Maisy
Mrs Foster, a retired lady whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs, is to have to share the treatment room with a 'know it all child' who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy Jones gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope.
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