Synopsis
Belle Époque (1992) is a Spanish comedy directed by Fernando Trueba — watch it online on iFILM. The year is 1931, Spain is drifting toward civil war, and a young army deserter named Fernando stumbles onto the country estate of an old liberal painter named Manolo.
Manolo welcomes him in without much fuss. Then his four daughters arrive. Each one is different, each one is drawn to the young stranger in her own way, and Fernando — played by Jorge Sanz — suddenly has to figure out what he actually wants. A very young Penélope Cruz appears here in one of her earliest notable roles, and the ensemble keeps the film from ever tipping into farce.
Trueba won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for this one, and the reason is simple: it pulls off something genuinely tricky, a story that is warm and playful without being naive about the world its characters live in. Stream Belle Époque (1992) online on iFILM.
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