Javier Giner, the character of the series Me, drug addict (Disney+), is press officer. And Javier Giner, the one who exists in real life, we know him in journalism for being a press manager. There are two, but it’s the same.
In the interview that Javier Zurro did a few days ago, on the famous blue sofa of the elDiario.es editorial office, Giner spoke of a “well of dissociation”. It’s a big theme about person and character (it sometimes reaches the limit of contradiction, as we already know) and this interview (and the series, and the book on which it is based) allows us to reflect on the way of telling yourself the same. “The Javier Giner of the show represents not only the real guy, but also a multitude of drug addicts,” he told her.
Everything that is told in this wonderful series, from which we do not want to distance ourselves from the characters, is real, even if everything did not happen that way. As we’ve said before, this is a leap into the void of radical honesty. And it’s going well. From there, he comes out – the spectators come out – stronger. You have to see it.
a concert
This is an extreme proposition. It’s not for all audiences. But if you go in, you won’t be able to get out. There aren’t many artists as charismatic as American Chelsea Wolfe. He delights in pain and beauty, as his latest album says, which he presents in Spain with an appointment in Barcelona (November 8, Razzmatazz 2) and November 9 in Madrid (La Sala del WiZink Center ). From doom to folk, from metal to gothic, from shock to strangle. You have to dare.
Three recommended books
- “Under the sign of repentance”, by Alejandro Cesarco. As the themes covered in the books of the wonderful Caniche publishing house always surprise, where they generally offer reflections on art and culture. In this case, the Uruguayan Cesarco, artist, editor and curator, asks whether repentance is a form of memory and also a methodology. For him, it can be a generating, driving, creative force. Already in bookstores.
- ‘Joni Mitchell. On both sides. Conversations with Malka Marom’ (Kultrum Books). There are conversations that last a lifetime and the one that singer (and writer, radio host and documentarian) Malka Marom had with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is one of them, and the reader is lucky too that it became a book. . They met in 1966 and the first interview took place in 1973. It lasted four decades. This voluminous book, translated by Elena and Cristina Villalonga, allows you to sit at the same table with them and also links the transcription of the conversations with song lyrics and a few pages of photographs and artistic works. Joni Mitchell will return to the present with the biopic directed by Cameron Crowe and written by him and Mitchell herself. It will be Meryl Streep who will play her. In addition, some very complete box sets are being released (on CD and vinyl) and the last one includes a conversation between Crowe and Mitchell. In bookstores from September 16.
- ‘Clown’ by Luis Maura (Deux Bigotes). Let’s go with a fun final recommendation that also comes with a great cover. It is a detective novel written by this author from Ciudad Real, who is also a columnist in El Asombrario, about LGTBI culture and activism. The protagonist is an actor dressed as a clown who flees the police in a shopping center. He’s terrible at casting and relationships, and he also has a secret hidden in the fridge. Sometimes we need novels like this. In bookstores November 18.
Three recommended films, by Javier Zurro
- ‘Frame’. Enric Marco has spent his life giving interviews and recounting his experiences as a victim of the Holocaust. He gave visibility to the association, he brought Zapatero to a tribute… the problem is that he was never a real victim. With such a history, the Moriartys (the trio of Basque filmmakers responsible for Loreak either Handia) They have created a film that talks about history, about truth and which has a colossal interpretation, that of Eduard Fernández.
- ‘The kitchen’. Trump’s victory gives even more importance to this adaptation of the play directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios and which shows the bowels of the kitchen of a restaurant where migrants (almost all Latinos) are exploited and try to survive as they can. Ruizpalacios may use dramatic aesthetic flashes, but his proposal moves you forward.
- “Pedro Paramo”. Is it possible to adapt something as unadaptable as Juan Rulfo’s novel? The closest is perhaps this sometimes irregular but always beautiful attempt by Rodrigo Prieto, director of photography for directors like Scorsese, who here makes his directorial debut with this trip to Comala from a screenplay by Spaniard Mateo Gil .
Three projects for the weekend, by Laura G. Higueras
- HematoFest. From November 6 to 10, Vigo hosts an exciting festival of humor and children’s literature created to pay tribute to the writer and actor Hematocrite, who died a year ago and which was programmed by his friends. The program includes a concert by the Triliterate group, storytelling sessions, a talk by Paco Roca and a gala led by director Nacho Vigalondo that will feature performances by Amaral, Noel Ceballos, Carolina Iglesias, Laura Márquez, Joe Crepúsculo, PAVA, Manuel Bartual and the La Ruina podcast.
- Cuéntalo Narrative Festival. The city will be the central theme of the 8th edition of this festival organized in Logroño, which will include conversations with writers, book presentations, conferences, performing arts in the street, literary creation workshops, music live inspired by cinema classics and popular literature. vermouth.
- Slaughterhouse DJ Set. The Matadero Madrid cultural center is celebrating its 100th anniversary and, as part of its centenary program, this Saturday it will offer a morning with tropical Guacamayo and DJ Meneo, a Guatemalan musicologist who has dusted off the hits of the collective imagination with urban, remix electronic, Latin and retrofuturistic. Access is free until full capacity and they will be there from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Let’s dance!
Three exhibitions, by Jaime Molero Torres
- ‘In the moving air…’. This exhibition has just opened its doors at the Reina Sofía Museum to show you something paradoxical: two invisible elements, air and emotion. With a strong influence from García Lorca, from whom the verse that gives his name is even recovered, this exhibition is a perfect plan to play and experience emotions from a poetic touch. You can see paintings, sculptures, photographs or documents by artists such as Dalí, Goya, Goethe, Víctor Hugo, Miró or Picasso. Also give a twist to the notion of emotion, which is understood here rather as a shock that affects the whole, the community. For me this is an essential step.
- ‘Hemendik Hurbil’ (near here). If you love social portrait photography, you already have this, it’s your plan. Exhibited at La Virreina Center de la Imatge, Clemente Bernad’s photographs comprehensively capture the violent period of what he himself calls the “Basque conflict.” More than 400 images taken between 1987 and 2018, until the dissolution of ETA, which, in an act of historical memory, bring a very interesting exhibition to Barcelona. While you are there, you can take advantage of your visit to take a look at the historic baroque palace where it is displayed.
- “Hilma of Klint”. Complete change of style to recommend the work of one of the great pioneers of abstract art. A tour of Swedish artist Af Klint’s colorful paintings on spiritualism, theosophy or anthroposophy arrives on the walls of the Guggenheim in Bilbao. A unique work due to its early development at the beginning of the 20th century which seems too innovative for the time, since she herself only wanted to exhibit it 20 years after her death. I wouldn’t pass it up if you like abstract art.
Three readings
The Life of Robert Graves. Many will remember him as the author of Me, Claudio. Some of you will know that you fell in love with Mallorca. Less is known about his life and the impact that the First World War had on him. But he wrote his autobiography at 34.
“Nothing” at the theater. The first stage adaptation of Carmen Laforet’s influential and timeless novel airs this week on CDN, with a focus on “brutal gender-based violence.”
Do you like Talking Heads? Well, you’re a cool person, says cartoonist Lorenzo Montatore, a big fan of the group. He drew one of his comic strips which are inspired by drawing.
Librotea’s recommendations
Over the past seven days, Librotea has taken us on a journey through book clubs like Dua Lipa’s, through fictional worlds where presidential elections are also taking place, and through the question we ask ourselves every day when we wake up.
