Pep Cruz
The story of Mireia Oriol and Mario Casas is a story of seduction. Will it be a temporary crush or love at first sight? Let's see what happens...
Caterina, the girl in the cafe of a fishing village in the early twentieth century, is marked by its unforgivable past. Against all odds, it will be born a love story hidden in front of all the people, which will grow until it burst in front of everyone; including Claudi, a shy fisherman, solitary drinker, and Caterina, who will get to be loved and reconciled with her life.
Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
A woman takes refuge in the town of her childhood feeling overwhelmed by lack of control. However, the solitude of the town will bring out the feeling of failure that she carries.
