These days we have been covering the Seminci (you can pronounce it as it is read or as Paquita Salas would, everything seems fine to us) and there Javier Zurro has seen a film that is already seen as important for Spanish cinema. One of them is half of Ana, directed (it is her debut) and also starring Marta Nieto. In the line of 20,000 species of bees, The story takes us into trans childhood. It is important to continue making films like this, there are few, it is not enough to tell it once or twice.
The most impressive film has been Dust will bea musical about euthanasia. Yes, as you hear it. It is a risky film but it emerges victorious, thanks, among several reasons, to a great performance by Ángela Molina. Death with dignity continues to be a very present theme right now in Spanish cinema.
Another reason why the film succeeds is because of the compositions of María Arnal, whom we have heard in Seminci twice, since she performs songs in The Marseillaise of drunksa documentary that recovers songs from the anti-Franco resistance that were recorded by a group of Italians in the 60s and that continue to resonate today.
The other great Seminci film, which Zurro has defined as “atrocious,” is Hail Mary: Real motherhood without filters is a brilliant horror film, directed by Mar Coll and which reveals to us an immense actress, Laura Weissmahr. Aims for Spanish film of the year.
On Saturday morning we will know the winners and we will tell you about it on elDiario.es. Don’t miss it. In the meantime, I leave you with readings if you scroll. Like every week, I recommend three articles that we have published these days and that you should not miss. Additionally, I suggest three books that are coming to bookstores soon. My colleagues Javier Zurro and Laura García Higueras bring you movie recommendations and plans. Our culture colleague in the Barcelona editorial office, Jordi Sabaté, has been to the exhibition about Camila Cañete, a deceased artist who we have already talked about here, and he tells us about her. Keep reading.
Three recommended articles
- The wound that remains open among the people of Vitoria. The demolition of a former Franciscan monastery in 1930 took place just two days later that his file was initiated to protect him.
- The eternal tale of eco-sensitive tours. Billie Eilish is striving to do sustainable concerts but talking to experts it is not clear that your system benefits the planet, precisely.
- Shaved heart. Carles Viñas has become the great expert on the skinhead musical movement claiming its anti-fascist origin. The story needed to be told in Spain but it is here.
Three recommended books
- ‘You Could Make This Something Pretty’, by Maggie Smith (Asteroid Books). The author discovered that her husband was having a relationship with another woman. His life as he had known it for 20 years collapsed but through writing, he found himself again. With this book you can think about how to reinvent a life and a new family model. (In bookstores on November 4).
- ‘Botanical Gothic. Tales of a perverse greenness’, edition and prologue by Patricia Esteban Erlés (Impedimenta). This anthology of horror stories opens the door to greenhouses with poisonous plants and takes you by the hand along paths of gardens watered with blood. Gothic literature where we find authors such as Roald Dahl, Eli Colter, Lovecraft or Mary Elizabeth Counselman. (In bookstores on October 28).
- ‘Invisible whales’ by Paula Díaz Altozano (Barlín Libros). This is a poetic essay by a Madrid author about the cultural imaginary that revolves around whales, both in history and in literature and art, from Moby Dick to Emily Dickinson. From the Azores to Iceland. And clearly against whaling. (Already in bookstores).
Three recommended films, by Javier Zurro
- ‘Sex’ The Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud is making a trilogy whose films will be titled Sex, Love and Dreams. That is, ‘Sex’, ‘Love’ and ‘Dreams’. Filmin premieres in theaters and soon on its platform the first, which is an x-ray of masculinity and how in sex there are also patterns and machirulos. The next one, lovewas presented last Venice and is another gem, so we look forward to its final dreams.
- ‘Woman of’. Polish filmmakers Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert are not the best known here, but they are regulars at the Venice festival and have a few more interesting films. The last was this look at transsexuality in their country, and through the protagonist woman they make a very critical portrait of Polish society and politics.
- ‘The gulfs’. If they put Saura in any room you have to go. The National Film Archive screens at the Doré (Madrid) this Sunday The gulfshis directorial debut and a unique opportunity to see one of his great films on the big screen, which competed at the Cannes Festival with this film closer to quinqui cinema than to his later political allegories, but where he already showed his fang to show the discontent of youth in Franco’s regime.
Three plans for the weekend, by Laura G. Higueras
- ‘How to be Cleopatra’. For those of you who are in Santander, come this Saturday to the Café de las Artes Teatro to see How to Be Cleopatra. A study on temptation and how to lose Egypt in 10 steps, from the Paraíso Cero company. The queen is the perfect embodiment of how to navigate between desire and obligation, while the protagonists, mere mortals, can only dream of being her. Let there be no shortage of questions: What would you do if you could be Cleopatra?
- Indiana Jones for a day. This Saturday, Moradillo de Roa (Burgos) will allow you to visit the archaeological excavations that have uncovered a medieval fortress from the 11th century. As an unconditional fan of Indiana Jones, being able to see first-hand how they carry out their work and what they find, seems like a great opportunity.
- Millennial Nostalgia Fest. In addition to saying goodbye to Tapapiés, my star plan for the weekend is this festival with a summer flavor that IFEMA (Madrid) will host. A bit like Love the Twenties, but autumn version. Álex Ubago, Nena Daconte, Raúl, Sonia and Selena (together again!) and King África are some of the artists who will provide the soundtrack. Besides Beth! Saturday will be the first time I hear his Dime live, fantasy!
Three recommended comics, by Gerardo Vilches
- ‘The evaporated ones’ (Astiberri). It is the adaptation by French-Japanese Isao Moutte of the novel by Thomas B. Reverdy. It is a traditional thriller that addresses a phenomenon that is very present in Japanese society, but taboo: every year, around 80,000 people decide to suddenly abandon their lives. They leave family, work and home and settle somewhere else, to start from scratch, free of responsibilities or debt. Moutte, with a narrative style that hybridizes elements of French comics and manga, builds a story around the reasons that have led a man about to retire to become an evaporator.
- ‘Vivian Maier. On the surface of a mirror’ (Garbuix Books). It is a free and poetic approach to the figure of Vivian Maier, a street photographer who never developed her photos and who was only discovered by chance shortly after her death, revealing a rich and fascinating photographic work. Paulina Spucches reconstructs some passages of her life, with the intention of explaining her mysterious personality, while carrying out a speculative exercise around some of her snapshots, taken furtively on the streets of the American cities where she lived.
- ‘City park’ (Apa Apa). This comic by Carlos González Boy is one of the surprises of the season, a crazy comic by an author very active in the field of fanzines and self-publishing, which immerses us in a virtual world, populated by colorful avatars, prey to hedonism and lack of empathy, in which strange things begin to happen, system failures and attacks that break the deceptively idyllic environment of Parque Ciudad. Avant-garde graphic drawing and a wonderful edition, as Apa Apa usually offers, for a story that will appeal to those who enjoy unconventional fiction.
Camila Cañeque is still present, by Jordi Sabaté
After die at 39 On February 14 while she was sleeping, Camila Cañeque published posthumously in June a wonderful essay on the latest sentences in literature. Now he opens an exhibition in the La Capella space in Barcelona. With the aim of publicizing his work, which is extensive, multidisciplinary and little known among the general public, Barcelona City Council has selected some of his most notable works and has titled the exhibition Infinite/Unfinished. Poetics of tiredness.
In it you can see everything from his voluminous photographic work to the videos where some of his performances are collected, as well as his peculiar sculptures loaded with a philosophical message. In the exhibition you can also read texts from his posthumous book and access his website, where a large part of his photographic archives reside.
Librotea’s recommendations
This week, Librotea asks the actor Jordi Mollà and the director of elDiario.es Ignacio Escolar for some recommendations that complete a week of outstanding books that are capable of looking society in the face.
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