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Common Ground (2002)
"Lugares comunes" (original title)

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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Fernando Robles
Mercedes Sampietro ...
Liliana Rovira
Arturo Puig ...
Carlos Solla
Carlos Santamaría ...
Pedro Robles
Valentina Bassi ...
Natacha
Claudio Rissi ...
Demedio
Osvaldo Santoro
José Luis Alfonzo
Yael Barnatán ...
Fabiana
Graciela Tenenbaum
María Fiorentino ...
Tutti Tudela
José Soriano ...
(as Pepe Soriano)
Florencia Merlo ...
Esposa de Demedio
Patricia Pan ...
Hija de Demedio
Micaela González ...
Hija de Demedio
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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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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It's never too late to begin again.

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12 September 2002 (Argentina)  »

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Common Ground  »

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Opening Weekend:

$19,844 (Brazil) (2 July 2004)

Gross:

$19,844 (Brazil) (2 July 2004)
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"El soldado"
Written by Leopoldo González
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The common places where lives go
11 December 2003 | by (Wiesbaden, Germany) – See all my reviews

How to start again when all the hopes are over? How to keep loving the same woman during all your life? How to change without loosing your ideals? How to get old and feel as the first day of your youth?

Basic questions, with basic answers that not everybody is willing to hear. Common places where most of us try not to go.

This film is poetry into a movie. One of the best scripts contents of the Latin American cinema. Aristarain shows one more time to be one of the best ever Argentinean directors.

Take your time to enjoy it.


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