Etiqueta: Nostalgia
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Middle-aged Quinceañera
It’s never too late to make your dreams come true. Cecilia Ortega is 40 years old and has one dream: her daughter Cece must have the wonderful Quinceañera party that she never had. So she spends her monthly budget on packets of beans with the hope of finding one of the five crystal slipper charms…
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Someone like you (Alguien como tú)
An intense love story hidden for decades. Paulina Homs is in her twenties and has a quiet and accommodated life in Barcelona in the 80s, a husband who loves her and a little girl, Gina. Her life changes when, in 1981, she travels to Paris to attend her cousin Julia’s wedding, a trip in which…
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Phone Calls From Amsterdam (Llamadas de Amsterdam)
An alternative reality made to give their desires a second chance. The story starts with a phone call in Amsterdam Street, in Ciudad de México. Juan Jesús and Nuria Benavides were once a beautiful married coupe. He is failed a painter that has stopped believing in himself due to the critiques; she is the favorite…
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The man in the Taj-Mahal (El Hombre de Taj Mahal)
A man over fifty looks back on his life seeking clues to explain his present. He talks about his father, a merchant who cheated on his wife with a neighbour, his eagerness to leave his hometown, his first trip that led him to the Taj-Mahal in India, his rise in the social ladder while he…
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How are you, dear? (¿Qué tal, cariño?)
The story begins from a scientific theory that says that at the moment of death, the neurons open all the memory archives trying to find an answer to the life’s journey. This is what happens to Gloria, who is in a coma and in her last moments, after being in a grave accident. In the…
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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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Always in autumn (Siempre en otoño)
Alejandra, Constantina and Elena are three sisters that, reaching maturity, meet again years after being apart in their parents’ summer house, once their lives have turned around because of different circumstances. The reunion produced in them mature and contradictory sensations which take them to loving times and past quarrels, just like hilarious anecdotes and dramatic moments. …
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The dance (El baile)
Pedro and Julián are two inseparable friends who fight for the love of the beautiful and joyful Adela, who ends up getting married to Pedro, something that will not affect the relationship of the three friends. Twenty-five years later, Adela decides to split up with Pedro and live those experiences she left aside after getting…
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Life on a thread (La vida en un hilo)
Mercedes has just become a widow after Ramón’s death, with who she had been very unhappy. One day on a train, she encounters a fortune-teller. She reminds her that once she could have chosen another man and shows her how her life would have been if she had chosen that man. Is she still in time…
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The family album (El álbum familiar)
THEMES: Post-War, Social Relation, Politics, Society, Family, 40s GENRE: Drama, Historical The play takes shape as a family album in which there are photos and past experiences. This gives the author the opportunity to rebuild the Spanish post-war society through memories and dreams. The character relives that period during which he builds his personality and his…
