Common Ground

Name: Common Ground
Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Released: 2002
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig, Carlos Santamaría, Valentina Bassi

2002 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 2,121 VOTES · DIR. Adolfo Aristarain

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,341 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:53 COMMON GROUND

00:05:54 I can request to stay for another three years.

00:09:33 The best questions are those asked by the Greek philosophers.

00:13:13 - You okay? - No. Everything's awful.

00:18:47 but it's unlikely.

00:22:24 Fabiana and the kids ignored us.

00:25:21 like no one was listening to me.

00:28:00 What future have you got?

00:31:49 Look, forget what I said. I wanted to piss you off. Sorry.

00:35:01 - Is Carlos expecting you? - I can wait.

00:38:19 Let's think and try and come up with something.

00:42:18 He wants to move out now.

00:45:21 We lost the war some time ago. Those who won it, the masters

00:51:06 She's not here, but she hasn't gone.

00:57:21 And tired, and I need to pee. Where's the bathroom?

01:01:21 that life and death are not consecutive

01:06:55 I'm not surprised. The banks lend money to people with money.

01:10:53 Sometimes we think what we don't want to. It's like a game.

01:16:11 You got on so well together. Splitting up was stupid.

01:19:26 - I'll be in the car. - Keep the jacket on.

01:24:21 who awoke such a sense of lechery within me.

01:28:26 - You feel hot. - I'll just finish this.

01:34:03 the bacteria will kill him.

01:41:55 I want to be there at 1 0, before the X-ray.

Cast & Characters

Federico Luppi Fernando Robles Mercedes Sampietro Liliana Rovira Arturo Puig Carlos Solla Carlos Santamaría Pedro Robles Valentina Bassi Natacha Claudio Rissi Demedio Osvaldo Santoro José Luis Alfonzo Yael Barnatán Fabiana Graciela Tenenbaum

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,341

Dialogue density12.2 lines / min

First line00:00:53

Final line01:41:55

Production Record

DirectorAdolfo Aristarain

LanguageSpanish

IMDb votes2,121