Sound of the Sea

Director: Bigas Luna
Genre: Romance Film, World cinema, Romantic drama, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Leonor Watling, Jordi Mollà, Eduard Fernández, Juan Munoz, Neus Agullo, Pep Cortés, Ricky Colomer, Sergio Caballero, Pablo Rivero, Carla Collado

Son de Mar (English: "Sound of the Sea") is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Vicent.

It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing village to teach literature at a local high school. During his stay he falls in love with Martina (Leonor Watling), the daughter of his landlord. Sierra (Eduard Fernández), a rich businessman, also falls in love with her and fruitlessly tries to win her heart.

Ulises arrives in a coastal town near Valencia to teach literature. He rents a room at a local hostel and immediately falls in love with Martina, the landlord's daughter as he sees her hanging up her clothes on the clothesline. A local businessman by the name of Sierra is also in love with her but she resists his advances. Martina invites Ulises to see the Son de Mar, a yacht on which a film had been made years before, when she was 13 years old. Her dream is to purchase it when she becomes rich.

They soon become friends and Ulises recites the Aeneid for her, and she is enthralled by the story of Dido and Aeneas. The quote she is most infatuated with is:

Enchanted by his romantic quotations, amidst

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