Weird Christmas at Gotham City - Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns

Tim Burton chose to situate the action of Batman Returns (1992) during the Christmas season, in the gigantic fictional metropolis of Gotham City. Throughout a film marked by duality and ambiguity, the director works to deconstruct and even destroy the conventional image of Christmas in order to better recreate symbols, a spirit and even a magic of Christmas according to his own narrative and aesthetic criteria. It is therefore a profoundly nonconformist vision, but not a hopeless one.