Felicidades
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lucho Bender
Luis Machin
Gaston Pauls
Pablo Cedron
Carlos Belloso
Marcello Mazzarella
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Buenos Aires, 24 December 1999. A hot night, stifling and humid. It's already an hour to midnight. The streets are crammed with people desperate to finish their last-minute shopping. At the height of decadence, the middle classes in Argentina insist on celebrating a holiday that has completely lost all its religious meaning. Buenos Aires is a city out of control which has grown well beyond any town plan. Its inhabitants have gradually lost the ability to feel anything in common, often becoming selfish, suspicious and violent. This is the setting for the story of three people who, on one of the most important days in the Christian year, find themselves pretending to be better, united and happy, and pretending to celebrate. And yet this urge is by no means natural, it is imposed by the spirit of the occasion which will only help bring out selfishness and misery that neither the spectators nor they themselves would ever have imagined.
Director
Lucho Bender
Crew
Emilio Bender
Emilio Bender
Lucho Bender
Lucho Bender
Juan Bucich
Pablo Cedron
Andres Goldstein
Andres Goldstein
Cecilia Hecht
Pedro Loeb
Patricia Pernia
Patricia Pernia
Daniel Sotelo
Daniel Sotelo
Silvina Soto
Daniel Tarrab
Daniel Tarrab
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States March 2001
Released in United States on Video October 25, 2005
Released in United States Winter January 1, 2001
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 24 - September 4, 2000.
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival March 1-11, 2001.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Critics Week) August 30 - September 9, 2000.
Feature directorial debut for Lucho Bender.
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 24 - September 4, 2000.)
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Critics Week) August 30 - September 9, 2000.)
Released in United States Winter January 1, 2001
Released in United States March 2001 (Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival March 1-11, 2001.)
Released in United States on Video October 25, 2005
