Belle Époque
Director: Fernando Trueba
Genre: Comedy, Romance Film, World cinema, Romantic comedy, Romantic drama, Drama
Year: 1992
Country: Spain, Portugal, France
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz Aroca, Gabino Diego, Jorge Sanz, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdú, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Chus Lampreave, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Michel Galabru
Belle Époque is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba. The title derives from the period in French history known as the Belle Époque (“The Beautiful Era”). Belle Époque received the Goya Award for Best Film and was named Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards.
The year is 1931. Spain is politically divided between Republicans and Traditionalists and on the verge of the Spanish Second Republic. Fernando, a young soldier, deserts his duty. He befriends Manolo, an old man with a large house in the country. Fernando meets and is enchanted by Manolo's four daughters. As he meets each of the first three one by one, he falls in love and has sex with each of them, determining to marry, but with each one a complication arises: Clara (a widow who only recently lost her husband and who seeks solace with Fernando); Violeta (a lesbian who is only attracted to Fernando when he is dressed as a woman for a costume ball); and Rocío (a social climber who is about to marry into a royalist family for the security it would provide, and who only momentarily succumbs to Fernando's charms). Heartbroken each time, the father of the girls encourages him to have patience. Each of the
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