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Farewell

2014 · 90 min

A quiet, reflective farewell that lingers on tenderness and mortality, asking you to sit with an old man's reckoning.

Directed by: Marcelo Galvão
Genres: Drama
Starring: Nelson Xavier, Juliana Paes, Amélia Bittencourt

Overview: A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55 years younger than him.

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Directed by: Marcelo Galvão
Genres: Drama
Starring: Nelson Xavier, Juliana Paes, Amélia Bittencourt

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: aging
death
love
memory
family
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	2
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Marcelo Galvão
Written by: Marcelo Galvão
Starring: Nelson Xavier, Juliana Paes, Amélia Bittencourt, Thereza Piffer, Nill Marcondes, Deto Montenegro, Felipe Hintze, Ithamar Lembo
Cinematography: Eduardo Makino
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese

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