Etiqueta: Mythology
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Sherlock Holmes, the Newest Adventures (Las Novísimas Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes) – Original Project
According to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes died in Niagara Falls during his confrontation with Doctor Moriarty. According to Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Holmes survived the waterfalls, retired, got tired of retirement, and now investigates cases in London with Jardiel himself as an assistant. Sherlock Holmes, The Newest Adventures is a sitcom…
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The weaver of dreams (La tejedora de sueños)
This recreation of Homer’s Odyssey relates the adventures of Penelope, loving wife of Ulysses, whose return from the Trojan War she is waiting for. Buero’s Penelope is not a self-sacrificing woman; now, she is taken the lead since she hates Helen and Ulysses because of the twenty years she has spent weaving and unweaving. Ulysses…
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The alchemist’s gaze (La mirada del alquimista)
The story is set at the end of the 18th Century and at the beginning of the 19th Century, in the course of a long and unnerving voyage of discovery. The Alchemist’s Gaze retakes one of the oldest and most perturbing literature myths: the myth of the doppelgänger. This journey is based on scientific skepticism;…
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Arnau
Adelais escapes into the forest after being rejected by Count Arnau. There she finds an old woman who gives her refuge in her house. Staying there, Adelais looks into the fire and has a series of visions and premonitions. The disappearance of the son of a shepherd, that Adelais had foreseen, starts the people´s revenge…
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The Miller Woman of Arcos (La molinera de Arcos)
This dramedia is about the abuse of power, about the Church as an institution, the government, the military and the emancipation of women. During a wedding, a minstrel tells a legend and the characters from the wedding start turning into the characters of the legend. The tale told by the minstrel is about how a…
