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El Verano Que Vivimos (2020) Apr 2026

To get a better sense of the film's visual style and the central mystery of the obituaries, you can watch the official trailer here:

A standout feature of the 2020 film (The Summer We Lived) is its dual-timeline narrative . The story connects a modern-day investigation (set in 1998) with a forbidden romance from decades past (1958) through a series of mysterious, unsigned obituary notices. Key Feature: The Mystery of the Obituaries El verano que vivimos (2020)

The film features an original song by Alejandro Sanz , which earned a Goya Award nomination for Best Original Song. To get a better sense of the film's

A dramatic love triangle between Lucía (Blanca Suárez), an architect named Gonzalo (Javier Rey), and Lucía's fiancé, Hernán (Pablo Molinero). A dramatic love triangle between Lucía (Blanca Suárez),

However, her interest is piqued when she discovers a pattern of anonymous obituaries always dedicated to a woman named , sent every year on September 15th. This discovery launches a journey across Spain to uncover an "impossible" love story involving:

The film follows Isabel, a journalism student who begins an internship at a small coastal newspaper. Instead of hard-hitting news, she is assigned to manage the obituary section—a task she initially finds dull.

The lush vineyards of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia during the summer of 1958.

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