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La spagnola

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2001 · 87 min Drama Comedy
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.

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Year 2001
Country Australia
Genre Drama, Comedy
Director Steve Jacobs
Runtime 87 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (10 votes)

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The film constructs a sharp portrait of cultural clash and familial collapse, relying on comedic beats to offset its dramatic core. It explores maternal fury and filial rebellion as two facets of the same desperate coin.

What lingers after the final frame is a bittersweet, vital story of survival, where absurdity borders tragedy and liberation emerges from chaos. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Steve Jacobs

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