Cultura

That guy who became known, along with Gael García Bernal and Maribel Verdú, in Y tu mamá también (2001), Diego Luna (Toluca de Lerdo, 1979), has just presented his fifth feature as a director, Ceniza en la boca, at the Cannes festival. This adaptation of the novel of the same name by his compatriot Brenda Navarro (published by Sexto Piso), follows the steps of a Mexican teenager, Lucila (Anna Díaz), who migrates to Madrid and then to Barcelona, and synthesizes Luna’s commitment to the fight against racism, classism, and violence, which, as early as 1994, was expressed through the indigenous insurgents of Chiapas.

On June 30th, El Molino will close its doors to the public again. Barcelona Events Musicals (BEM), the company that now manages it, has reached an agreement with the City Council to terminate the concession, which was granted in 2024 and had a duration of four years. The stated reason is the imminent execution of works aimed at improving the soundproofing of the building, in response to neighborhood complaints recorded in recent months. It seems that the limitation of hours has been an obstacle to making the venue profitable, since many music shows rely on the balance between ticket sales and consumptions. Once the necessary adjustments are made, the City Council assures that it wants to continue El Molino as a reference cultural facility in the city.

Enigma solved. Angelo Savorelli betrayed the insurrectional plans of Francesc Macià in November 1926 at the French Sûreté Générale. It was the Italian informant who thwarted the attempt by the Estat Català army to invade Catalonia to free it from the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and proclaim the Catalan republic. Until now, only suspects had been proposed, without reaching any conclusion. Macià died without knowing it.

When the awardees keep missing their attendance at the awards gala, the best thing is for the ingenuity of a stage director to appear who raises the bar of the event. Yesterday there was luck at the 8th edition of the Ópera XXI, which happily returned to Barcelona, with Joan Anton…

The Cannes festival unexpectedly awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or to John Travolta this Friday just before the screening of his directorial debut, Propeller One-way Night Coach (Come Fly with Me). “I can’t believe it, you told me it would be a special night but I didn’t imagine it would be this,” the Hollywood star said visibly emotional and surprised to the Cannes general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, who was in charge of presenting the award. “The movies I have liked the most in my life have always been the Palme d’Or winners. I can’t believe it, this is more than an Oscar,” Travolta stated to the applause of an enthusiastic audience eagerly awaiting the actor’s appearance in the Debussy theater while the chords of You’re the one that I want, the main theme of Grease, played.

One day after receiving the Honorary Palme d’Or from actor Elijah Wood during the opening gala of the Cannes Festival, Peter Jackson gave a masterclass at the Debussy theater in which he extensively reviewed his career and assessed the challenges of current cinema. Under the chords of the soundtrack that Howard Shore composed for The Lord of the Rings, the audience applauded the entrance of the creator of the successful film saga created by the British writer J. R. R. Tolkien.

It took more than two decades to see Eric Clapton again in Barcelona, an eternity for his fans who last night, once again at the Palau Sant Jordi, enjoyed an evening that many no longer expected. Good blues and solos from a legendary guitar that, judging by the quality of what was heard, could well have started with the “as we said yesterday” that El último de la Fila used a few days ago, in their own return from the world of the living. “It seems we’re here for the same thing,” greeted a woman old enough to be a grandmother at the entrance of Sant Jordi to an acquaintance, who responded firmly: “to see the master.”

A research program from French public television revealed this Thursday new footage of the high-profile robbery at the Louvre Museum, which occurred on October 19, 2025, showing four guards powerless against the actions of the two assailants and how one of them drops Eugenia’s crown.

The poet Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad in 1940 and was expelled from his country in 1972, after which he settled in the United States. From there he traveled again and again to Venice. He visited it for the first time at the age of 32, and at the time he wrote the wonderful little book Watermark (Siruela/Vienna) he had already stayed in the city 17 times, always in December. For the Nobel, seeing a wave breaking on the shore at midnight was like “seeing time emerging from the water.” Memory, death, love, beauty, dreams are also the materials that, in a subtle and poetic way, the artist Claudia Pagès unfolds in the Cantieri Navali, the usual headquarters of Catalonia at the Venice Art Biennale, where this year she presents Paper tears (Lágrimas de papel), a waltz-paced installation created from 15th-century watermarks found in the Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, the place where she was born.

El Último de la Fila, a surreal band within anyone’s reach, antiheroes glorified by a legion of followers, has broken their unfulfilled promise of never playing together again, and they did it in front of 56,000 people like any Stones to give themselves the pleasure of playing again, just as a couple of years ago they disobeyed themselves by releasing Desbarajuste piramidal for the mere pleasure of recording again.