Los Llanos de Aridane’s “Movie Afternoons” close this season with a clear vocation of continuity

The monthly project “Film Afternoons”, launched by the Culture Department of the Los Llanos de Aridane City Council, which began in February with screenings at the Millennium Multicines, ended the season today Wednesday, with a clear vocation of continuity .

With the art historian and coach Dévora Viña Carrascoso, and the journalist and film critic Adrián González Viña, the “Film Afternoons” project has sought to use the seventh art as a tool to talk about social issues, combining culture with critical commentary and informed about certain issues of importance in the world in which we live. And above all looking for an enriching debate with the audience.

The Councilor for Culture, Charo González, explained that “It is important to bet on small projects devised with care and professionalism, and in the face of the honesty of which, the reaction of the public is not long in coming, converting the multiplex hall once a month in a space not only for viewing little-known little cinematographic gems, but also for debating them, both from a cinephile and an emotional point of view “.

Four films with four different themes, throughout these months:

In February, the first film of the cycle was framed on the theme “The routine suffocates me”, with the screening of “We all want the best for her”, a 2013 film directed by Mar Coll, and in which Geni (Nora Navas) is a 38-year-old woman who, after suffering a terrible car accident, tries to resume her previous life and fit back into what had been her world. A year after suffering the accident, Geni is ready to take her life back … or at least that’s how her family wants to see it. The reality is that despite wanting to please everyone, Geni feels unable to live up to her expectations: her life prior to her accident has ceased to interest him. Why go back to it then? The confusion caused by this evidence gives way to an increasingly erratic behavior and a single idea that begins to grow within her: elope.

In March, the chosen theme was “Therapy of cinema”, with the screening of “Frente al mar” (2015) by Angelina Jolie, set in France in the mid-70s, and in which Vanessa, a former dancer and her husband Roland, writer, travel the country while gradually distancing themselves from each other, until they reach a small town by the sea and establish a relationship with one of its inhabitants.

In April, the third film was framed on the theme “The Battle of the Sexes”, with the screening of the film of the same title, chronicling the rivalry between the 55-year-old former professional tennis player, Bobby Riggs, and his 29-year-old opponent, the charismatic tennis player Billie Jean King, who faced each other in a legendary match in 1973. It was then wanted to know if a professional female tennis player could really beat a man (even if she was an ex-professional), an event that It attracted more than 50 million Americans and it was marketed as “The Battle of the Sexes.”

Finally, and under the motto “The woman at the service of others”, this touched me the screening of “The Good Wife” (2017) by Björn Runge, in which Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is a good wife, from mature and natural beauty, the perfect woman. But the truth is that she has been sacrificing her dreams and ambitions for forty years to keep the flame of her marriage alive with her husband, Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce). But Joan has reached her limit. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan decides to reveal her best kept secret.

Fuente: El Time