Tudo Bem No Natal Que Vem

Literal: Everything will be okay next Christmas English release: Just Another Christmas

by Paulo Cursino, directed by Roberto Santucci

• Release: 3 December 2020
• Format: Feature Film
• Genres: Fantasy, Comedy
• Audience: Families
• Content: Debatable Time Travel
• Original Language: Portuguese

Teu avô disse que eu ainda ia descobrir pra que serve o Natal. Foi você, né, sue velho?

He did it! Two days ago he said I’d find out what Christmas is all about! You cursed me, didn’t you, old man?

English

VARIANTS

1 Portuguese variant

TRANSLATIONS

5 translations, including English

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 2000 to 2099

Themes

• Birthday Travel
• Memory Wipes: The plot turns on Jorge’s unusual conditioin that on every Christmas, he can remember nothing since the previous Christmas, although on other days his memory appears complete.
• Resetting Time As If the Story Never Took Place: Although it could all be a dream, we take the film at face value, assuming that Grandpa sent Jorge back to the start, with only Jorge remembering the future Christmases.

Real-World Tags

• Christmas

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From Christmas Eve, twenty years or so in the future ⋙ to Christmas Eve in 2010. Note: Most of Jorge’s transitions appear to be a simple loss of the previous year’s memories, but in the end Jorge is returned from the last Christmas Eve back to the first one in 2010.