In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

Original Title Lugares comunes
German Title Lugares comunes
French Title Lugares comunes
Other Titles Common Places
Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Country Argentina
Available Formats 35mm, DVD
Screenplay Adolfo Aristarain, Kathy Saavedra
Film Editing Fernando Pardo
Cinematography Porfirio Enríquez
Sound Goldstein & Steinberg
Décors Abel Facello
Costumes Kathy Saavedra, Valentina Bari
Production Tornasol Films - Adolfo Aristarain, Shazam S.A., Pablo Larguia Producciones
Runtime 112 Min.
Language Spanisch/d/f
Actors
Federico Luppi Fernando Robles
Mercedes Sampietro Liliana Rovira
Arturo Puig Carlos Solla
Carlos Santamaría Pedro Robles
Yaël Barnatán Fabiana
Javier Ortiz Pedros Sohn 1
Guillermo Ayuso Pedros Sohn 2
Awards

Ciguapa de Oro for Best Actress, Muestra de cine de Santa Domingo 2003

Best Screenplay, Best Actress; Goya Awards 2003

Best Screenplay, Best Actress; San Sebastian International Film Festival 2002

Glauber Rocha Award, Habana Film Festival 2002

"Im Mittelpunkt von Aristarains hochsensibler, brillianter Beziehungsstudie steht ein charismatischer Literaturprofessor, der aus Spargründen Knall auf Fall zwangspensioniert und mit einer erbärmlichen Rente abgespeist wird. Das Ganze spielt im heutigen Buenos Aires - auch am anderen Ende der Welt ist die Geschichte von der Ameise und der Grille nur Lug und Trug." Neue Zürcher Zeitung

"Gute Nachrichten für das argentinische Kino: Nach drei Jahren des Schweigens kehrt sein klassischster Erzähler zurück und er tut dies in Höchstform." Horacio Bernades, Fipresci Argentina

"A la manière d'un Woody Allen, Aristarain réalise 'Lugares comunes' comme s'il écrivait son propre manuel de sagesse élémentaire, fruit de rencontres amicales ou amoureuses, de déceptions, d'expériences, d'engagements, de changements et d'une vision de la vie qui ne se prive ni d'humour, ni d'une ironie mordante; avec en toile de fond une Argentine en déroute: 'Comment peux-tu parler du futur, quand tu sais que le futur est une illusion, que c'est un piège inventé par le système pour obliger les gens à travailler, à produire comme des esclaves par peur de ce putain de futur?'" Cinénews Bruxelles

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