TRUEBA & MARISCAL

I like when two artists from different backgrounds decide to collaborate in a project together. I even like it more when you can clearly  see that the two artists have connected in a special way, and the result is just marvellous. This is the case of Trueba -film director- and Mariscal – artist designer- who started to work together on Calle 54, following with Chico y Rita – an animation movie- where Mariscal creates a spectacular Cuba in the 50s.

Their last work together is the poster designed by Mariscal for The Artist and the model -Trueba’s lastest film.

I just hope these two guys will keep working together !!

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Reading “A Thousand Splendid Suns” made me feel so lucky of being a woman who can choose and decide about a future; a woman who has options and the chance to wish for anything better in life.
While I was getting into the story I thought about how we complain and demand things all the time without thinking how lucky we are.

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" explains the life of two Afghanistan women from 1960s to 2003, which also give the reader a history lesson of Afghanistan.

This book helps me to realise one more time how hard is being a woman depending where you have been born.

I strongly recommend this book to any women out there!

HYPERREALISM

It is hard to believe that the image below is not photography. It is a pencil on paper drawing created by Paul Cadden, a hyperrealist artist from Glasgow. I am fond of realist artist like Edward Hopper or Robert Henri who found their inspiration recreating reality , but Paul Cadden goes the extra mile away giving a hyperrealism touch. I really recommend having a look to his website, some of his work is really impressive. I take my hat off to Paul Cadden.

MELODY GARDOT

I discovered Melody Gardot thanks to the amazing soundtrack of “An Education” – also a worthy movie to watch. She is this kind of artist extremely talented with an exquisite taste for music. She is influenced by artist like Nina Simone or Janis Joplin.

Her life has been quite interesting as well; she has used music to recover from almost dead, and I could say it worked for her. Enjoy this talented musician!

BECOMING WARHOL

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ENGLISH FILMS?

I still do not understand why so many directors are using the English language to explain stories that have nothing to do with English.  Even worst, why they make their actors speak English with a strong accent from the language of the country where the film is based? When I saw The Reader I could not understand why the great actress Kate Winslet (who is just stunning on her role) speaks with a strong German accent; her character is German, lives in Germany and communicates with other Germans. Why can’t they speak their language? The production company’s answer would probably be that having the name of Kate Winslet is much appealing for the audience than hiring native or bilingual actors. Well, my answer to that would be: I think you should learn something from other directors, for example Tarantino. His movie ‘Inglorious Basterds’ is not just a great film of action, suspense, love and revenge; he shows to the world that you could make a good film in three different languages with amazing Hollywood and  native actors.