The Frame
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Materialists
To marry for love or money? The eternal question that has tormented generations of women takes on new life in the brilliant hands of Celine Song, the director who dazzled us with ‘Past…
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Fight Club – Resting in Disobedience
I don’t look up. I look down, ahead, at the book and the screen. It’s night. August. In the sky the immense moon emerges as if from a shell of clouds: an immense…
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The Butterfly Effect – Coming Back to You
I’ve thought about how confusing happiness seems, where every cause contains an effect we often cannot anticipate, and over which we fumble blindly searching for those uncertain glimpses of what appears to be…
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Dead Poets Society – Carpe Diem
Carpe diem, they said. Seize the day, they said. And a boy killed himself because an irresponsible teacher sold him impossible dreams without giving him the tools to face reality. But we keep…
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A ‘Requiem for a Dream’ of What Could Have Been
This isn’t happening. And if it is happening, everything is fine. So don’t worry, it will all work out, you’ll see. Everything will be fixed. Just turn on the television. See? You’re not…
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Strange Christmases Inspired by ‘Edward Scissorhands’
As in the best films, Christmas installs its decorations in our memory long before the cold arrives. It is a spell made of memories, where the air fills with snow and magic can…
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Who Has Stolen My April?
Since 1988, on his sixth album, writing in “certain bars in Madrid whose name I don’t want to remember,” Joaquín Sabina cried out with his torn voice: Who has stolen my April? It’s…
