Common Ground poster
Movie · 2002

Common Ground

1h 50m
Drama
Adolfo Aristarain
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.
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Details

Original title
Lugares comunes
Director
Adolfo Aristarain
Year
2002
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama