The Sea and the Weather (1989)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 42M
Director : Fernando Fernán Gómez
Synopsis
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.
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