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La piscina vacía

2024

A tense, talky family lunch that tightens like a knot, mixing awkward comedy with real emotional sting.

Directed by: Pablo Conde
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Paco Churruca, Lara Véliz, Soledad Mallol

Overview: Alba goes to lunch at her parents' house, where they have just built a swimming pool in the backyard. She needs money for a down payment on an apartment and has to ask her father, with whom she doesn't get along very well. Alba is a "progressive" and her father is a "fascist." Alba's mother and boyfriend try to mediate between the two, but lunch gets complicated...

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Directed by: Pablo Conde
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Paco Churruca, Lara Véliz, Soledad Mallol

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
class
politics
parenthood
identity
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	5
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	5
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, drama
Directed by: Pablo Conde
Written by: Pablo Conde
Starring: Paco Churruca, Lara Véliz, Soledad Mallol, Álvaro Casares
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish

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