Listen to La Hora Extra: I have a love message for you on Play SER
Imagine that you receive a message notice on your mobile phone and that, when you open it, you find the voice of the Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia telling him that what you and he share is love. As it is. It seems like a delusion, but the best thing is that you can choose to have those messages sent to you not only by Sbaraglia, but also Jaime Lorente, María Valverde or Cecilia Roth. For weeks, audios, songs, photos or videos will arrive on your mobile phone that will build a story, written by the screenwriter and playwright Santiago Loza, called ‘Quarantine love’. It is a project that was born in Uruguay during the confinement, then in Argentina and that has just arrived in Spain thanks to the platform of streaming Scenicus.
Today, in La Hora Extra, we also talk about the love of theater professed by the 115 inhabitants of Urones of Castroponce, in the province of Valladolid, where for 24 years the FETAL Alternative Theater Festival, directed by Álex Rodríguez. A festival that is celebrated in its streets, in its eras, in the church or in a theater with more places -200- than registered inhabitants, and through which this year the Grumelot or Cambaleo companies will pass.
And it is also an exercise of love that the organizers of the Ascaso Film Festival, “the smallest film festival in the world”, which will be held again at the end of August in this village in the Aragonese Pyrenees of seven houses and a street, with open-air cinema sessions under the stars.
And if FETAL and Ascaso insist and resist, so does the Girona High Season Festival, which has just advanced part of the programming for its next edition, using as a poster the image of a burned forest, signed by the photographer Cristina de Middel. Says the festival director, Salvador Sunyer, that a burned forest is, although it may not seem like it, a fertile ground in which new projects can be born that transform what existed before the fire.
With Eva Cruz we recognize ourselves in the gaze of the characters of The Cazalet, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, and by Celiaby Elena Fortún. And with Emma Vallespinós we immerse ourselves in that territory in which, as Woody Allen said in one of his films, the most beautiful words are not ‘I love you’ (even if Sbaraglia says them) but ‘it’s benign’. Welcome to hypochondria.
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