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CINEMA, BY LUIS MARTÍNEZ

FANTASTIC CINEMA 'CIRCLE'

How far is the human being able to go in an extreme position, such as an alien abduction or, why not, a pandemic? Surely you have heard of the old prisoner's dilemma (the one that places us at the choice of cooperating and earning a little while we all win, or betraying and earning a lot at the expense of others). And I do not doubt that an ethics teacher has ever irritated you with the other, much more gloomy, dilemma of the unbridled tram and formerly two forking roads (running over a child, for example, or running over our grandfather). I do not follow. Círculo (on Netflix) is a nice (and cruel) experiment that I invite you to see right after El hoyo and that puts all these uncertainties on their feet. Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione put a group of people to vote. Very democratic everything. Of course, they have to decide who dies . And who is saved. It is time to reflect on who we are and on the system that we have given ourselves. It is not a great movie, but very timely.

DOCUMENTARY 'EMILIO LLEDÓ'

It was broadcast on Sunday and is now available on RTVE A la carte . We keep thinking about who we are and how we got here, but this time with the lucid documentary by Alberto Bermejo and David Herranz animated by the no less enlightened words of the Socratic and post-Socratic thinker Emilio Lledó.

DRAMA 'BEHAVIOR AS ADULTS'

And to complete the reflection on where we are, there is nothing better than going to the reading that Costa-Gavras offers in Filmin of the European scarring in the failed rescue of Greece. Will it ever happen again?

SERIES, BY LETICIA BLANCO

HUMOR 'CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM'

The adventures of television's most curmudgeon misanthrope, Larry David , have reached their tenth season on HBO with the creator of Seinfeld in top form. His out-of-the-box comments continue to make him feel uncomfortable and laugh and are nourished in this installment of the bad press of Trumpism: Larry decides to get in the first chapter with one of the red caps that the followers of the president wear with the motto Make America Great Again and its effects in highly Democrat California are as instantaneous as they are grinding. With Jon Hamm and Laverne Cox as stellar guests.

COMEDY 'HIGH MAINTENANCE'

The premise of High Maintenance is very simple: a camel travels New York City on his bicycle, taking his clients marijuana . Each chapter is independent and works as a small vignette that portrays the almost always tiny homes of the Big Apple and its more or less eccentric tenants. The only thing that doesn't change is The Guy, the delivery guy, with his grass-filled backpack on his back, trying not to get run over. Basically, getting high is the least of it in this series about busy urbanites who need to disconnect. The fourth season has just premiered on HBO with a cameo by Ira Glass in the first episode.

'THRILLER' 'THE GOOD FIGHT'

On Movistar you can see the fourth season of this spin off of the series of lawyers The Good Wife . Set in the Trump era, The Good Fight stars attorney Diane Lockart, a stupendous Christine Baranski who can only be a fan of.

BOOKS, BY ANTONIO LUCAS

JOURNALISM 'IN-DEPTH'

In the late 1970s, when only the first network and the UHF existed, journalist Joaquín Soler Serrano premiered a television program about, by and from the writers. It lasted over an hour. Guests could smoke, drink, and shut up. Then there was no need for the show. A television still was in itself. That material led to one of the best literary newspaper libraries on Spanish television. And it's still there, in A la carte , on RTVE. Conversations with Borges, Rosa Chacel, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Dalí, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, Josep Pla, Francisco Umbral or Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, among others. An anthology of lucidity and, also, of eccentricities.

LITERATURE 'JAPANERIAS'

The initiative that promotes #YoMeQuedoEnCasaLeyendo brings together dozens of publishers that make some of their catalogs available to readers for the duration of their confinement. Among the stamps that embrace this initiative is Queterni , which proposes five books on Japan and its culture, among them Tales of Samurai .

SCRIBD LIBRARY

It is one of the most ambitious, complete and surprising digital libraries . For 30 days he has opened his funds. An opportunity for those who enjoy reading in English, mainly. In its vast repertoire are the most important classical works, as well as magazines of all genres and periods and audiobooks where you can enjoy the voices of excellent interpreters giving life to some extraordinary novels of the last decades.

MUSEUMS, BY LUIS ALEMANY

NATIONAL GALERIE ARCHITECTURE

The new Berlin National Gallery by Mies van der Rohe (1962) is the closest thing to a Parthenon left by the 20th century. A little piece of geometric and idealized beauty that had been closed since 2015. That year began the first restoration of its history, a meticulous and lengthy process led by David Chipperfield whose delivery has been again postponed by the Covid-19. The good part: the museum has arranged a page that allows you to move around the empty building, just as Mies must have seen.

HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

Somehow, the coronavirus caught the National Archaeological Museum with the duties done. The 13,000 pieces in his collection have been inventoried and made available to the public since before the emergency. The strategy to put all those treasures in the showcase of the great world emptiness is rather playful. Thus, the MAN has launched a call for drawings and artistic creations that reinterpret the treasures of its collection, starting with the Lady of Elche.

OLAFUR ELIASSON TRIP

Committed, collaborative, environmentalist, cool, intellectual but accessible, imaginative ... The Icelandic / Danish / German Olafur Eliasson is the perfect artist for today's world. His life story has been suspended at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, which offers the expected and generous web version. And his new work, Sometimes the river is the bridge has been on the way to Tokyo. By the way: the road (from Hamburg to Japan) and its carbon footprint are the real work here and Eliasson documents it on his website.

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