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A normal world (2020)
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Original name: Un mundo normal
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
2020, City of Madrid (Madrid, center to Spain and country's capital). "Un Mundo Normal" (A normal World) follows Ernesto Caral, a loudmouth and sarcastic at full time forty-something theater director trapped in the middle age crisis: after the split with his lifelong domestic partner Julia, he moves to a new floor with their comprehensive and smarter teenager daughter Cloe. Belonging to a clan of artists as his mother Carolina was actress, his brother Max is a concert pianist and Cloe is a talented painter despite she is studying laws, Ernesto divides his time between to find a new project to recover his fallen-on-disgrace carrier and caring his aged mother. Worried about as her friends die in a short time, Carolina forces Ernesto to make her a promise: take her corpse after her death to move her natal town in Altea, Alicante (Valencia, east to Spain) and throw her to the sea. Reluctant to film a TV series but accepting to solve his money troubles, in the filming Max calls Ernesto ...
Style:
crying, sarcastic
Plot:
dog, sea, police, hospital, pianist, boat, moving, car accident, funeral, actress, painting, road trip, corpse, grief, foster parent, drunk, gay couple, lost dog, birthday party, detective inspector, discussion, teenage daughter, theatre director, homework, car crash ...
Place:
spain, madrid, mediterranean sea, valencia spain
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Story:
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