''December'' ( pt, Feliz Natal) is a 2008 Brazilian
drama film and directoral debut of
Selton Mello. Shot in
Rio de Janeiro,
it stars
Leonardo Medeiros, Darlene Glória,
Graziella Moretto, Paulo Guarnieri, and Lúcio Mauro.
Plot
Caio (
Leonardo Medeiros) travels to his hometown to visit his family on
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation ...
. At the reunion, he must deal with past memories.
From start, the film exposes a structural functioning: it is an example of a "performance cinema".
Cast
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Leonardo Medeiros as Caio
*Darlene Glória as Mérci
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Graziella Moretto as Fabiana
*Paulo Guarnieri as Theo
*Lúcio Mauro as Miguel
*Fabricio Reis as Bruno
*Thelmo Fernandes as Neto
*Cláudio Mendes as Thales
*Daniel Torres as Vitor
*Rose Abdallah as Célia
*Lucas Guarnieri as Thiago
*Liz Maggini Seraphin as Bia
*Hossein Minussi as Alex
*Emiliano Queiroz as
Zé do Caixão
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Nathalia Dill
Nathalia Goyannes Dill Orrico (born 24 March 1986) is a Brazilian actress. She has played the lead role in three telenovelas, the lead antagonist role in another two and the lead role in 2012's film ''Artificial Paradises''.
Career
Nathalia ...
as Marília
See also
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List of Christmas films
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year d ...
References
External links
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2000s Christmas drama films
2008 films
Brazilian Christmas drama films
Films directed by Selton Mello
Films shot in Rio de Janeiro (city)
2000s Portuguese-language films
2008 directorial debut films
2008 drama films
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