It surely happened to you. We live with a sense of unreality, fiction or directly science fiction. Some expert says that the important thing is to perceive this situation of confinement as something temporary and that if our mind, dejected or surrendered, happens to feel it as normal, the return to daily life will be harder. So we propose an immersion in real fiction, that of cinema and literature, and as Fernando Savater says, we turn day to day into a game: suppose that confinement or dodging others in the supermarket is a game, just like the Syrian father who made the bombings a game for his son.
And so that the desire for Barcelona does not pass you, it is better that fiction has a relationship with our city. While the confinement lasts, while events cannot be organized, we will propose you a film and a book that take place in Barcelona or that are, in some way, related to our city. We will also propose you an event (online, of course) and as a bonus a musical theme.
A film: "10.000 KM"
A film by Carlos Marques-Marcet with David Verdaguer and Natalia Tena as protagonists, who won the Goya for the best new director and the Gaudí for the best non-Catalan film. It tells the story of a couple who lives in Barcelona and who goes from considering having a child to being separated for a year due to labor issues. She to Los Angeles and he to Barcelona. 10,000 km is the distance that separates the two cities. We have chosen this film in the first place because it is very appropriate for the current situation in which eye-to-eye, skin-to-skin contact has been exchanged for telematic contact.
You can see it in FILMIN
A book: "The city of wonders"
Novel by the Barcelona writer Eduardo Mendoza published in 1986 by the Seix Barral publishing house. In it the adventures of Onofre Bouvila are narrated, a young man of humble origin who rises to the top of power until he became one of the richest men not only in Catalonia but in Spain. Picaresque, treason, crime and three women guide the protagonist in this satire that is the living portrait of the evolution of the city of Barcelona between the universal exhibitions of 1888 and 1929. It is not a historical novel, but a transcription of the collective memory of a generation of Barcelonans, as the author himself warns in the prologue.
You can buy it online at Casa del Libro
An event (online): MYBARRIO Online #EnCasa, the first Fest on Instagram
Starting next Saturday, March 28, you have a 2.0 appointment every day on the Instagram of MYBARRIO. With more than 30 confirmed creatives, they will open this edition with Jesús and Pancho, creators of CASA PROTEA Plant Collectors Studio, two loving plant collectors. They have a beautiful creative space at MYBARRIO de Gràcia. In this first LIVE they will show us the most appreciated species from their personal collection and they will explain the basic care to keep our plants healthy at home: irrigation, light, fertilizer or when to transplant or cut.
To imagine skies and seas, with a soul-cutting voice: "Wide Lovely Eyes" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
#YoMeQuedoEnCasa #EmQuedoACasa #StayAtHome
