The French Institute of Madrid (c / Marqués de la Ensenada, 10) brings a new appointment to its film-debate cycle “Free hand to …”, in which every month a Spanish filmmaker or intellectual presents his favorite French film, conversing with Floreal Peleato.
On Monday, February 22, at 6:30 p.m., the cycle of the Institut français will receive Carmen Posadas, in which the writer will present the film “Madame de” (1953) by Max Öphuls, with the filmmaker Floreal Peleato, before the screening of the film.
Carmen Posadas of Spanish nationality was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) and presented in 1988 the Spanish television program, “Entre Lineas”.
Posadas is one of the most relevant Latin American writers of her generation. His books have been translated into 24 languages. He began his literary career writing children’s and youth literature. He writes film and television scripts and two novels under a pseudonym. In 1984, his book “El Señor Viento Norte” won the National Prize for Literature for the best edition. In 1991 he published the novel “Who has seen you and who sees you?”. A year before he published a collection of stories and repeated in 98 with “Nothing is what it seems.” That same year he would win the Planeta Prize with “Pequeñas infamias”.
Madame de, of Max Öphuls (Synopsis)
To pay off her debts, Madame de… sells to a jeweler the earrings that her husband, the General of…, gave her and pretends to have lost them. The General, warned by the jeweler, buys them and offers them to a lover who sells them immediately. Baron Donati acquires them and then falls in love with Madame de… and as a token of his love he gives her the famous earrings. The exchange of this gem will have dramatic consequences.
