Etiqueta: Love
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And now what? (¿Y ahora qué?)
The main character is a solvent middle-aged man who loves women, nice cars and parties. One day, he meets a fascinating woman that will change his life, a judge married to a syndicalist. THEMES: Couples, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Seduction GENRE: Comedy RELEVANT FACTS: This comedy was a huge success when it premiered. Between…
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Bankrupt (TV movie)
Film based on the play by Jordi Casanovas Seven characters experience something supernatural in the dining room of an old flat; while outside there’s an international bankrupt situation. What triggers the surreal situation: the possibility of travelling across space through a “dimensional hole” that has always existed under the dining table at the grandmother’s flat.
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Storms don’t come back (Las tormentas no vuelven)
Gabriela is Juan’s secretary, a scatterbrained ethologist. She aspires, unsuccessfully, to repeat the long gone love story between the two of them. In a stormy night, the peace at Juan’s gets disturbed by the appearance of Ana, a half-naked young woman, chased by Pedro, a suspicious looking motorcyclist. Juan protects the young woman as she phones…
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It’s better in October (Mejor en octubre)
Carlos is an irresistible Don Juan, who has already reached maturity. He has just done his greatest feat: Taking a woman – Ana, his friend Alberto’s daughter – away from the altar where, in front of five hundred guests, she was about to marry. Soon enough, Alberto, his wife Elisa and Beatriz, Carlos’ wife, will…
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Morning Transit (Tránsito de madrugada)
This is the story of a couple that meet on a bridge, one step away from suicide. After this encounter, they fall in love with each other. Many years after that, the same couple sees life from another point of view, thinking about their lives from the perspective of an elderly couple. THEMES: Love,…
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Midnight games (Juegos de medianoche)
Santiago and Elena met each other in the cemetery while burying their respective partners. From that point on, they begin a new life together. Married again and after 3 years of passionate love, the marriage starts to fall apart. THEMES: Love, Death, Marriage, Passion, Heartbreak, Widowhood GENRE: Drama RELEVANT FACTS: Love, passion and weariness of…
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No turning back from this girl (La muchacha sin retorno)
A TV announcer that has always been a womanizer suddenly realizes that everything is starting to go downhill towards old age. Leticia, Carolina and Lucrecia, three of his former lovers, get together with him to remember old times and try to help him. But Josefa appears, a young woman who makes him regain excitement. THEMES: Seduction, Love, Existential…
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Violins and trumpets (Violines y trompetas)
This play, very important during the Spanish Transition, tells the life, day by day, of three chamber musicians who have not only the same profession but also the same love interests. The play was very important in Spain as it turned around the repression on sex, desires and frustrations that existed for forty years under…
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Forever is not the whole life (Siempre no es toda la vida)
The play looks over three stages in the life of a married couple: The past (adolescence and happy engagement), the present (the problems of the married life) and the future (distant feelings but united by social conventionalism). THEMES: Love, Marriage, Adolescence, Youth, Society GENRE: Dramedy RELEVANT FACTS: Couple’s play between past, present and future…
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Save the dolphins (Salvad a los delfines)
A divorced couple meets after seven years split at their daughter’s wedding. She has built a new life with another man. The play develops the misunderstandings and anecdotic situations of this triangle to which is added the daughter and her fiancée, a Thai man who aspires to go the Faeroe Islands and save dolphins. THEMES:…
