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Water heart, ice heart

Posted on 15/07/2017 by freelander

So there I was, back in my hometown, being paid a spontaneous tribute by my country folk for having returned from my endless journeys around the globe; a casual open-air meeting in the middle of the street, where I was … Continue reading →

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On Lem’s Pericalypsis

Posted on 18/01/2017 by freelander

In the foreword of that joke book that is Perfect Vacuum, where its author, the Polish essayist Stanislaw Lem, reviews a series of nonexistent literary works (they reside only in the universe of his boundless imagination), the prologue writer tells … Continue reading →

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The ‘Time passed away’ carol

Posted on 06/01/2017 by freelander

When passing by the function room at the Orthodox Institute, the man hears a choir of child-like voices, and –curious– peeps through the laces of the glass doors. He sees a group of children rehearsing Christmas carols, conducted by a … Continue reading →

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The wrestler

Posted on 24/12/2016 by freelander

If one decade ago I had been told, in light of Sin City and other films of the sort, that I’d ever be moved by Mickey Rourke on the screen, I would’ve not believed it. But welcome be the news: … Continue reading →

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I don’t love you anymore

Posted on 26/11/2016 by freelander

Of all the memorable movie scenes, this is one of my very favourites: so straightforward, so descriptive, so harsh and life-like, so telling of women’s feelings… It belongs to the film Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004. Very recommended). Dan and Alice … Continue reading →

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The visit

Posted on 11/11/2016 by freelander

In my dream, I was watching a boy who, sitting on a stool at the kitchen table, silently and obediently nodded to every of this mother’s warnings, perhaps scolding or simply instructing him. He is a handsome boy of big … Continue reading →

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Dylan’s Nobel, a display of Jewish power

Posted on 22/10/2016 by freelander

I swear I didn’t know. And because I didn’t know, when I heard about Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize in literature I was as puzzled as the next, thinking what the heck?, what were those guys at the Swedish Academy thinking … Continue reading →

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Tarkovski revisited

Posted on 22/08/2016 by freelander

I was only a teenager when — by suggestion of a friend under the intelectual fever that, in the early 80’s, stroke some middle-class sectors in Spain — I went to an unlikely cineclub in a not so advisable district … Continue reading →

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