NINETEEN-year-old Kim’s (Felicity Jones) childhood achievements as a champion skateboarder are history. Now she lives with her widowed father (Bill Bailey) and works in a chook-frying takeaway. 

Then fate puts her on a train to the Austrian snowfields to spend the season helping Georgie (Tamsin Egerton) manage the chalet to which squillionnaire Richard (“call me Dicky”), with an ex-air-hostess wife (Brooke Shields) and a handsome son (Ed Westwick), brings other rich men to mix business with pleasure.

I enjoyed “Chalet Girl” more than I expected, its sweet mindlessness suiting my mood after a long day at the movies. Its main elements – magnificent mountains, pristine snow, money, having fun, sport, partying – don’t need to work hard to reach what is obviously going to be a happy ending.

Romance, trials and tribulations, a snowboarding competition with a prize that Kim craves to improve her dad’s life, self-indulgence, and snow-bunny camaraderie, add variety to a light-weight movie.

Bill Nighy as Dicky is under-utilised as happens so often. I can’t put my finger on what’s so special about Tamsin Egerton but would take great joy from closer enquiry.

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