''The Sea and Time'' () is a 1989 Spanish drama film directed and written by

Fernando Fernán Gómez Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007), better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific and outstanding in all these fiel ...

based on his novel of the same name.

Plot

Jesús, the protagonist, is a Spaniard exiled in Argentina who returns to Spain in the spring of 1968 in order to reunite with his family. However, things have changed and the family that awaits him in Spain is very different from the one he left before leaving for Argentina.

Cast

Release

The film screened at the 37th

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; , ) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spain, Spanish city of Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Countr ...

in September 1989. Distributed by

United International Pictures United International Pictures (UIP) is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures that distributes their films outside the United States and Canada. UIP also had international distribution rights to certain Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M ...

, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 26 September 1989.

Reception

Ángel Fernández-Santos Ángel Fernández-Santos (1934–2004) was a Spanish film critic and screenwriter. Born in Los Cerralbos, province of Toledo, in 1934, he was the younger brother of Marxist philosopher . He studied for a brief spell at the in the early 1960s. As ...

of ''

El País (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...

'' considered that Fernán-Gómez delivered "a new lesson in complexity disguised as simplicity".

Accolades

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, , Fernando Fernán-Gómez , , , - , Best Adapted Screenplay , , Fernando Fernán-Gómez , , , - , Best Actress , , Rafaela Aparicio , , , - , Best Actor , , Fernando Fernán-Gómez , , , - , Best Supporting Actress , , María Asquerino , , , - , Best Editing , , Pablo del Amo , , , - , Best Makeup and Hairstyles , , Jesús Moncusi, Juan Pedro Hernández , , , - , Best Production Supervision , , Andrés Santana , , , - ,

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, , Eduardo Fernández, Gilles Ortion , , The film also obtained the Special Jury Prize at the 1989

References