Movie

Common Ground (2002)

Lugares comunes

110 min

• Drama

Director

Adolfo Aristarain

Released

October 4, 2002

Synopsis

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.

Cast

• Federico Luppi
• Mercedes Sampietro
• Arturo Puig
• Carlos Santamaría
• Valentina Bassi
• Claudio Rissi
• Osvaldo Santoro
• José Luis Alfonzo
• Yael Barnatán
• Graciela Tenenbaum
• María Fiorentino
• Pepe Soriano

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