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Audience Member What a shocking surprise! I thought The Secret In Their Eyes was my favorite Argentine movie but this one tops it. Heartwarming and absolutely beautiful. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Quiet, sensitive examination of a couple whose lives are uprooted in pre-retirement due to the flagging Argentinian economy has a warm, measured, and autumnal art house feel reminiscent of Duvall's late career opus, "The Assassination Tango" (2002); Relentlessly romantic. Luppi is a majestic patriarch embracing life with intelligent and two-fisted voracity. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member De lo mejor Hispanoamericano Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Excelente, bien actuada, argentina, algo diferente de lo que estamos acostumbrados, no deja de ser real!!! Disponible en Cine Independiente del VideoClub Claro Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member After being forced to retire, literature professor Fernando Robles (Federico Luppi) and his wife Liliana (Mercedes Sampietro) are forced to reevaluate their lives and make major changes in them. These include setting the record straight with their son, exiled in Madrid and starting out a new life. They decide to buy a small lavender farm in rural Argentina from a widowed man, Zacarías, and with the aid of their lawyer friend Carlos (Arturo Puig), attempt to start out their new business. 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 forced into retirement. 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. Along the way, Fernando, an aspiring writer himself, jots down notes and ideas for a novel in a book, which he frequently narrates in voice-overs. The film is a very interesting look at how lives in Argentina are influenced by dictatorship economic failures and corrupt politicians. Aristrain is one of the best Argentine directors working today. The performances by Fernando (luppi) and his wife (Sampietro) are really excellent. The film presents a nice clear vision of Buenos Aries Argentina and insight into life as an Argentinean in year 2002. It is also an acid social comment on the current state of life in Argentina, where thousands of people have had to face a similar end to their secure middle class existence. (Happening here in USA 2009 but not as bad) The familiy's adjustment to rural life has its moments of sadness, but their striving to live out their lives with dignity and purpose is profoundly human. Some reviews of this film were bad. I don't care it is an acceptably good film. the voice over narration did bother me (as it does in all films with lots of narration) but as least the narration was intellectual and poetic. three almost four stars Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member After being forced to retire, literature professor Fernando Robles (Federico Luppi) and his wife Liliana (Mercedes Sampietro) are forced to reevaluate their lives and make major changes in them. These include setting the record straight with their son, exiled in Madrid and starting out a new life. They decide to buy a small lavender farm in rural Argentina from a widowed man, Zacar­as, and with the aid of their lawyer friend Carlos (Arturo Puig), attempt to start out their new business. 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 forced into retirement. 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. Along the way, Fernando, an aspiring writer himself, jots down notes and ideas for a novel in a book, which he frequently narrates in voice-overs. The film is a very interesting look at how lives in Argentina are influenced by dictatorship economic failures and corrupt politicians. Aristrain is one of the best Argentine directors working today. The performances by Fernando (luppi) and his wife (Sampietro) are really excellent. The film presents a nice clear vision of Buenos Aries Argentina and insight into life as an Argentinean in year 2002. It is also an acid social comment on the current state of life in Argentina, where thousands of people have had to face a similar end to their secure middle class existence. (Happening here in USA 2009 but not as bad) The family's adjustment to rural life has its moments of sadness, but their striving to live out their lives with dignity and purpose is profoundly human. Some reviews of this film were bad. I don't care it is an acceptably good film. the voice over narration did bother me (as it does in all films with lots of narration) but as least the narration was intellectual and poetic. three almost four stars Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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