The world moves relentlessly. One day you find yourself at coordinates that mark the gravitational center of what is interesting, revolutionary, advanced, artistically attractive, and suggestive, and another day you occupy, not without some committed distance, consistent with principles and perhaps disenchanted, a more remote place, on the margins of attention and debate.
There is not a minute to lose. There are ovations before which not even Penélope Cruz, who has experienced quite a few, can remain indifferent. “I’m amazed,” Pe says this Wednesday recalling the applause received in the Sala Grande of the Lido in Venice. Her team points out: “It was 15 minutes, right?”. She immediately corrects: “No, it was 16!”.
Elon Musk is well portrayed in the new documentary dedicated to him by Alex Gibney, which premiered this Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival. The Oscar-winning American documentarian—who won the statuette in 2008 for exposing the tortures by the U.S. military in Guantánamo or Afghanistan—has crafted a four-hour film that begins by focusing on the young and entrepreneurial Musk, the one who invents to save the planet, a great capitalist who does not allow himself to fail and who is willing to colonize Texas to carry out his particular space race. But the film ends by warning of the great danger the character currently poses, not only to the democracy of his country but on a global scale.
Starting the course is always a good opportunity to ask questions. The book sector constantly asks them and will put them on the table at the XI edition of the Forum Edita, which was inaugurated this Monday with a tribute to the editor Beatriz de Moura – who passed away last April – and will continue until next September 9.
“The three million is a consolidated figure, a good moment for theater, the best moment in history,” says Isabel Vidal, president of the theatrical companies of Catalonia (Adetca), at the conference presenting the data for the 25-26 season and the Catalunya aixeca el teló gala, which takes place on Monday night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
The feeling here is that we are not facing the opening of just another museum, but that the opening of Faro Santander, the former headquarters of Banco de Santander now inhabited by Titian, Velázquez, Rubens, Tàpies, Cristina Iglesias, Frida Kahlo, or Leonora Carrington, is not only the culmination of one of the most ambitious projects of recent years, but the starting point of a transformation that will turn the Cantabrian capital into one of the most vibrant and unique cultural hubs in Spain. “We are part of what is about to come, we open the door to everything that follows,” says its director, Daniel Vega, who this Monday, after the inaugural event, was responsible for guiding King Felipe VI through the different spaces of the building renovated by architect and Pritzker Prize winner David Chipperfield: 10,000 square meters of cultural center with views of the bay and the Centro Botín by Renzo Piano, which since 2017 has marked the new direction of a city that is betting its future on art.
Love is one of the most beloved books by Theodor Kallifatides (Molaoi, Greece, 1938). However, it had never before been translated into either Spanish or Catalan. Starting September 16, thanks to Galaxia Gutenberg, readers of both languages will also be able to enjoy this contemporary classic that the author first published in Swedish in 1978. “I wrote it many years ago, but it still feels very heartfelt,” he confesses by phone to La Vanguardia days before this long-awaited publication arrives in bookstores. It is the first time he has spoken to a Spanish media outlet about the novel. “It is a book that I think ages well because, as far as love is concerned, for better or worse, human beings have not changed much, as we are still the same as in Greek tragedies,” he reflects. The novel follows Laki Sarris, a man about to turn forty, married to Lena and with a son, who falls madly in love with a woman much younger than him, Li. A relationship that will inevitably have dramatic consequences for his life.
For more than a month, Ceuta has been focused on its border. On the people entering, those returning, those sleeping on the streets and beaches, on security devices, and on a humanitarian crisis that has disrupted the daily functioning of a city of just 19 square kilometers.
The luminous Susan Sarandon has arrived at the Venice Film Festival with The Echo Chamber, an Italian film directed by Andrea Pallaoro based on the last script by Bernardo Bertolucci, who died in 2018 without having reviewed the second draft. Alicia Vikander and Luca Marinelli are the lead couple in this story of love and anguish in which a music producer with a great apartment in London – the alter ego of the young Bertolucci – and with back pain – that of the older Bertolucci – has a physiotherapist brought in while preparing an album with a veteran singer.
It is not easy to practice bibliophilia today. Everything is obstacles. To begin with, the basics fail: the support to accumulate books at home. Has anyone had to renew their shelves recently? Those pieces of furniture, in the usual stores, are still called bookcases, but it is obvious that…
