A House with a View of the Sea (Spanish: Una casa con vista al mar) is a 2001 black-and-white Venezuelan film directed by Alberto Arvelo, and a Spain-Canada co-production with Venezuela.
[4] It stars Imanol Arias, Gabriel Arcand, and Leandro Arvelo.
[5] ABC describes the film as an "intimate and crude history about the Venezuelan peasants of 1948".
[1] Based on the novel Vincentino Guerrero by Freddy Sosa, it tells the story of a farming family in 1948 Los Andes headed by Tomás Alonso that is broken when his wife dies, leaving him to take care of his son alone.
Tomás struggles with wanting his son to love the farmland and protecting the boy from their richer neighbors.