Eventually Fernando realizes, however, that Luz is the best one of the four to marry. While Fernando is pursuing her sisters, Luz gets progressively angry and jealous. The youngest of the family, Luz, represents naïveté. Each of the daughters is beautiful and represents a different aspect of feminine sexuality. Heartbroken each time, the father of the girls encourages Fernando to have patience. With each one, however, a complication arises: Clara, a widow who only recently lost her husband and who seeks solace with Fernando Violeta, a lesbian who is attracted to Fernando only when he is dressed as a woman for a costume ball and Rocío, a social climber who is about to marry to Juanito into the village's richest family (with Carlist leanings) for the security it would provide and who only momentarily succumbs to Fernando's charms. 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. Upon the arrival of Manolo's four daughters in a train, Fernando is enchanted by them all. Manolo owns a large house in the countryside, where Fernando stays for a while. After escaping from two Guardia Civil officers, he reaches the outskirts of a village, befriending Manolo, an old man with a semblance of a "Dickensian observer of life". Fernando, a deserting private with Republican leanings and former seminarist, is on the run from his assignment at the Cuatro Vientos base. In February 1931, some weeks after the failed Jaca uprising and the likewise failed Cuatro Vientos uprising, Spain is on the verge of the proclamation of the Second Republic. It is a joint production among companies from Spain, Portugal and France. It received the Goya Award for Best Film along with eight other Goya Awards and was named Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards. Consisting of a fable-like story, primarily displaying a warm tone, and set in an idyllic countryside location during the transition to the Second Spanish Republic, the film features Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz Aroca, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Gabino Diego and Chus Lampreave, among others. Belle Époque is a 1992 comedy-drama film directed by Fernando Trueba.
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