DARRYL DE CINE

  (EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO)  I read in the credits at the end of the movie that it was partially inspired by the book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, "Freedom at Midnight" (1975). The film is an historical portrait on how the independence of India was negotiated and, with it, the partition of the Crown's Jewel in two countries: Pakistan and India, as we know it nowadays ( we shall leave aside Nepal and other independent countries in the Himalayas and, within Pakistan, we shall include East Pakistan, nowadays Bangladesh).      One of the merits of the movie is that it was directed by a Hindi lady,  Ms. Gurinder Chadha, but, unlike "Gandhi" (1982), it shows a rather neutral point of view when describing the different characters ( whether British, Hindus or Pakistani) that populate the screen. In fact, the Palace scenes where the British are staying,  seem to have been directed by somebody who had worked as a servant in Buckingham Palace because they are look

(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO)  https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20210126/6197254/isla-artificial-creo-ingeniero-italiano-anos-sesenta.html       https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film230227.html       This is a film worth seeing, whatever you may think of "Netflix".  At first, I expected a "wild" comedy, reliving the sixties, the spirit of May 68, when youngsters took to the streets proclaiming freedom, anarchism, sexual liberation and the lot. In fact, the basics of the story could have even led to a Fellini-like film, the kind where an "incredible" plot leads to absurd situations. In the movie -based on real facts, as you can check from the links above-, an Italian engineer conceived the idea of "building" an "artificial island" off the coast from Rimini beyond Italian jurisdiction ( in that time "national" jurisdiction was six miles across the sea and beyond that distance it was international waters). Well, this engineer, togeth

(IN ENGLISH BELOW)  Hola Darryl! molt interessant, l'escena de la sala Parés... Gràcies per enviar-la!! Poca cosa a dir, m'ha fet gràcia que les dos dones arribin en 'cupé', que devia ser alguna mena de tartana per a rics, davant la sala, el xòfer devia ser traçut per fer entrar el carro pel carrer Petritxol, tan estretet. T'adjunto una imatge de la sala Parés, per l'època de la novel·la (va ser fundada el 1877): Una altra curiositat, ara sobre els Masriera, que surten a l'escena, suposo que coneixes que tenien el taller en un edifici ben a prop de casa meva i teva, al carrer Bailèn entre Consell de Cent i Diputació: el taller dels germans Masriera: Ara l'Ajuntament l'ha comprat i hi obrirà un Centre Cívic. https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/eixample/ca/noticia/leixample-recupera-el-taller-masriera_967275 Records! Xavi (ORIGINAL TEXT ABOVE IN CATALAN)  Hi, Darryl, quite interesting the scene at Sala Parés... Thanks for sharing it!  Can't add much m