Etiqueta: Art
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The Third Mask (La tercera máscara)
Could you show the world your most intimate mask? A Japanese legend explains how we all have three masks: the one we show to the world, the one we share with our loved ones, and the most intimate one, which hides our true self and is known only to us — the third mask.…
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The Intruder (La intrusa)
An intimate portrait of Dalí’s muse. Gala Dalí was a woman who wished to be secretive. Although the men with whom she shared her life were to become so famous they would eventually become universal figures, she decided to remain in the background, to the extent that her image became that of a cold,…
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Fresh Mint with Lemon (Peppermint Frappé)
During a sultry month on the Mediterranean coast, tension mounts in a triangle of love, power and desire between a Russian art critic, an American artist, and a provocative activist. Russian art critic Vadim meets the beautiful and mysterious renowned artist, Patricia Pavloff, in Saint Petersburg. She becomes his obsession. The young critic travels to the…
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For the Love of Art (Por amor al arte)
The perfect crime does exist. He committed it. Juan Manuel Candela Sapieha, also known as ‘El Sapo’, is a Spanish criminal known for his skills in concealment and disguise. For the Love of Art is the true story of the infamous crime which put this man in the spotlight: the robbery of more than…
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The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo (El libro secreto de Frida Kahlo)
A story full of colors and flavors. Frida is Mexico itself. After "dying" for the first time in a terrible car accident, Frida Kahlo reaches an agreement with her godmother, Death. In exchange for Frida preparing an offering in the form of a banquet for her every year on the Day of the Dead, Death allows her to live. Frida wrote down the recipes for each banquet dedicated to Saint Death in a black notebook she called “The Book of Holy Herbs”. The day this notebook was to be shown to the public for the first time in an exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts, it disappeared. Haghenbeck imagines that this notebook was a gift from the other great Mexican female icon, Tina Modotti (Frida Kahlo's lover), after the accident. The author narrates in first person the life of Kahlo, a free, authentic and controversial woman who broke stereotypes with her beauty and celebrated her Mexican identity in all areas. It delves into her decisions, thoughts and secrets, with a constant presence of death through two characters, The Messenger, represented by the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, and her Godmother, Death, who warns Kahlo that she will die the day her rooster Cui-cui-ri stops crowing. In an intimate and personal way, it reconstructs the most important passages of Kahlo's life, including her childhood, full of suffering and illness, and the accident she had in her youth, which caused injuries from which she never recovered, and which impregnated so much of her art. It also deals with her revolutionary interest in politics and her friendships and adventures with several of the most influential personalities of the time, such as Leon Trotsky and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. It explores her complex relationship with Diego Rivera, her infidelities, her pregnancy and subsequent loss of the baby, her life in the United States, her divorce and her return. One day, Frida Kahlo orders her rooster Cui-cui-ri to be cooked. That same day, she dies. RELEVANT DATA: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo is a novel inspired by the life of the Mexican artist. F.G. Haghenbeck takes the disappearance of The Book of Holy Herbs as the starting point for a journey through the life and thoughts of the Mexican artist, with a touch of magical realism and seasoned with Mexican gastronomy. The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo was a finalist in the International Latino Book Awards and winner of the Gourmand Award in France, making him the first Latin American writer to receive this distinction.? …
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Mona Carmona and the Enigma of the Sagrada Familia Basilica (Mona Carmona y el enigma de la Sagrada Familia)
The great Basilica contains a great treasure that only a great detective will be able to discover. Mona, a precocious and brilliant thirteen-year-old Mexican teenager, is an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and any type of story that challenges her intellect and confronts her with a powerful enigma. She has always wanted to…
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The Difficult Light (La luz difícil) (TV Series/ Film)
Jacobo has decided to die. The only thing left is to celebrate life. David is a successful Colombian father, painter, who left his hometown to look for a better future in The United States with his wife, Sara, and his three children: Jacobo, Pablo and Arturo. Now, old and widowed, he moves back to Colombia,…
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Someone like you (Alguien como tú)
An intense love story hidden for decades. Paulina Homs is in her twenties and has a quiet and accommodated life in Barcelona in the 80s, a husband who loves her and a little girl, Gina. Her life changes when, in 1981, she travels to Paris to attend her cousin Julia’s wedding, a trip in which…
