The Culture section of EL MUNDO chooses the best books and films of 2020, a year marked by the pandemic and also by the company and the support that culture has provided us.
Narrative, essays, poetry, comics, theaters, television series ... More than 50 cultural experts choose the most relevant of the year for La Esfera de Papel:
THE BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: 'BEGINNING', by Dea Kulumbegashvili
After sweeping the San Sebastián Film Festival, where it won four of the biggest prizes (Concha de Oro, direction, script and actress for Ia Sukhitashvili), the film by debutant Dea Kulumbegashvili has become the best excuse to save a year whole.
Disturbing, elegant, brutal and hypnotic, the film navigates with conviction through reality suddenly turned into a dream.
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THE BEST SPANISH FILM: THE YEAR OF DISCOVERY, by Luis López Carrasco
There are movies that determine an era.
And this is it.
A documentary that stops in the shadow that the past projects on today and more specifically the year 1992. The year in which Olympic Spain and that of the Expo dreamed different in an artificial paradise heading to Europe by AVE.
Beneath the surface, in Cartagena, for example, the social conflict over industrial reconversion ended in the fire of the regional Parliament on February 3.
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THE BEST NOVEL IN SPANISH: 'CHILEAN POET', BY ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA
Here's the great novel that fans of Zambra's storybooks have been waiting for years.
The
Chilean Poet's
Zambra
is on the path of storytellers who found their first and wildest obsession in the exercise of poetry.
Already from Cervantes and, from there to Faulkner, Nabokov, Kipling, Cortázar, Nadine Gordimer ... And, in another way, James Joyce.
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THE BEST INTERNATIONAL NOVEL: 'PRIVATE PROPERTY', BY LIONEL SCHRIVER
The author of
We have to talk about Kevin
brings together a handful of characters obsessed with having, to prosper, to be someone ... Or, at least, not to lose what little they have.
Its effect is comic and sad, tender and maddening.
Only the initial story, that of Gilian and Buba, could have been a novel, one of the best of the year.
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