Common Ground () is a 2002 drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain. The film marks the seventh collaboration between Aristarain and actor Federico Luppi. It also stars Mercedes Sampietro and Arturo Puig.
Synopsis 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 Córdoba from a widowed man, Zacarías, and with the aid of their lawyer friend Carlos (Arturo Puig), attempt to start out their new business.
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. But this attempt at a new life is cut short when Fernando suddenly contracts pneumonia one cold night on the mountains. He is hospitalized and dies over a week, with enough time to bid farewell to his family and tell his wife all he never said out loud.
Liliana rejects the help of the sympathetic Carlos and the offer from her son Pedro to come live with his family in Spain. She opts to carry on her late husband's attempt of a new life, and stays in the farm Fernando helped rebuild.
Cast Federico Luppi ... Fernando Robles Mercedes Sampietro ... Liliana Rovira Arturo Puig ... Carlos Sulla Carlos Santamaria ... Pedro Robles Valentina Bassi ... Natacha Claudio Rissi ... Demedio
Awards and nomination Award Category Subject ResultArgentinean Film Critics Association AwardsBest ActorFederico LuppiBest ActressMercedes SampietroBest Art DirectionAbel FacelloBest DirectorAdolfo Aristarain Best FilmBest ScreenplayAdolfo Aristarain, Kathy SaavedraBest Supporting ActorClaudio RissiButaca AwardsBest Film ActressMercedes SampietroCartagena Film FestivalBest FilmAdolfo AristarainCinema Writers Circle AwardsBest ActressMercedes SampietroBest ScreenplayKathy SaavedraFotogramas de PlataBest ActressMercedes SampietroFribourg International Film FestivalAudience AwardAdolfo AristarainGrand PrixGoya AwardsBest ActressMercedes SampietroBest ScreenplayKathy SaavedroGramado Film FestivalBest ActressMercedes SampietroBest FilmHavana Film FestivalGlauber Rocha AwardAdolfo AristarainOCIC AwardVigia AwardSan Sebastián International Film FestivalBest ScreenplayKathy SaavedraBest ActressMercedes SampietroGolden SeashellAdolfo AristarainSant Jordi AwardsBest Spanish ActressMercedes SampietroSpanish Actors UnionBest Lead Performance - FemaleMercedes Sampietro
See also List of Spanish films of 2002
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