Seasonal pleasure

SIR – I was saddened to read Tim Robey’s critique of Love Actually (Arts, November 24), which seems to attack the film on a number of tropes that were hardly thought of when it was made in 2003.

To my family, it is a film that all generations can sit in front of, half watching, but chorusing the lines as they are spoken from years of habit. It is a familial event – increasingly rare – to be enjoyed by all and probably forgotten until the next annual showing. Let’s allow a little guilty pleasure.

Martin R Cooper