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Federico Luppi,
Federico Luppi,
Mercedes Sampietro,
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Adolfo Aristarain,
Adolfo Aristarain
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: Not Rated
: Fox Lorber
: Foreign, Spain, Latin America
: 112 min.
: Spanish
: English
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Based on Lorenzo F. Aristarian's novel Rebirth and directed by Adolfo Aristarian, Common Places is a family drama from Argentina. College professor Fernando (Federico Luppi) and his devoted social worker wife Liliana (Mercedes Sampietro) live in a modest apartment in Buenos Aires. When he is forced into retirement and she is at risk of losing her job due to poor funding, they decide to visit their son, Pedro (Carlos Santamaria), who has a comfortable bourgoise lifestyle in Spain. After the father and son express their differences, Liliana and Fernando sell their apartment and buy a house in rural Cordoba. The middle-aged couple enjoy their new setting until Fernando develops pneumonia. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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| A Real--and a Good--Relationship
by talltale
January 20, 2005 - 9:52 PM PST
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| Rare is the film that offers an example of a positive, loving and nurturing relationship between a man and woman. For this reason alone--there maybe 50 others--COMMON GROUND is a must-see. To find a movie with so much intelligence, class, and sense of time, place, politics and economics is reason to celebrate. Another member mentions that nothing happens here. I can only conclude that he/she must be young because so very much takes place in this story of an aging professor and his social worker wife who find themselves jobless, in a country--modern-day Argentina--whose politicians and the wealthy grow richer while the poor and middle class go under. Sound a little like home? Well, Americans might do well to pay attention to this scenario because the first wave is upon us already. Friends and family quickly become involved with the couple; decisions are made and followed through; and because this film mirrors life in all its richness, enormity and despair, don't expect "golden" years ahead when your country begins to quietly self-destruct around you--economically, financially, politically, socially. The early schoolroom scene is splendid--wonderfully written, and enough to make you wish you'd had this fellow for a teacher. Another scene, three people around a copying machine, is also priceless. (But there are so many, you'll lose count.) Lead actors Federico Luppi and Mercedes Sampietro are utterly compelling. This is film to make you feel every which way from joyful to pensive, angry and sorrowful. Mostly, though, I suspect you'll feel enormous gratitude to writer/director Adolfo Aristarain, his cast and crew. |
| Not Much Happens
by squad
October 24, 2004 - 4:23 PM PDT
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4 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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| The synopsis is a spoiler, because reading that you have everything that happens in this film. It does give a good look at Buenos Aires and the countryside near Cordoba Argentina, but aside from that what you get is a Lifetime cable channel type movie with subtitles. There are three or four scenes that have intensity, not nearly enough. If you like Lifetime movies, then of course you will enjoy this film. There is a nice relationship here between the two main characters, and an overall sensitivity as well. |
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