One of the most curious proposals of the editorial autumn will arrive in November in the Tránsito catalogue. The label publishes Orlam, the latest collection of poems by PJ Harvey. The musician and composer had already made her debut in poetry with a curious book in which she wrote the texts for several photographs of her friend Seamus Murphy taken in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington D.C. But Orlam is very different. To begin with, Harvey wanted to recover the dialect that was spoken until the mid-nineteenth century in the Dorset area, relying on a glossary from 1886. In fact, the book was first published in a bilingual version, with the poems in English and in dialect. from Dorset. The protagonist of this epic is a nine-year-old girl, Ira Abel, not unlike her as a child. Harvey grew up in a house with pigs, cows and sheep – her parents operated a quarry – and the book has its own musical extension, an album titled I Inside the Old Year Dying, which was released last July.
THE YEAR OF AYO EDEBIRI
A summer as rare in the film industry as that of 2023 is not remembered. On the one hand, Barbenheimer and other minor box office phenomena –such as the one who has starred in the United States in the comedy Bottoms, which still does not have a release date in Spain– they have put movies back at the center of the conversation. On the other hand, the parallel strikes of scriptwriters and interpreters do not seem to be unraveling due to the castling of the studies. Undoubtedly, when everything starts up again, one of the people who will find the most calls on her mobile is the actress and screenwriter Ayo Edebiri, who has lived her own magical summer. The Bear's chef Sydney, who also co-stars in Bottoms, also stars in the comedy Theater Camp, voices April O'Neill in the original version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and has already set foot in the Marvel universe. with an as yet undisclosed role in the upcoming Thunderbolts.
TORRID TENNIS
Tons of money at stake, athletic bodies, tyrannical coaches, and an international circuit. Well looked at, yes, the world of tennis has everything to host high-voltage romances, but also situations of abuse of all kinds. Soon not one but two projects will arrive that explore that back room of the sport. Movistar premieres on September 24 Golpe de revés, a six-episode British miniseries about a former player, who did not end up materializing as the star everyone expected, who denounces the sexual abuse she suffered by her coach when she was a teenager. We will have to wait a little longer to see Rivals, the film by Luca Guadagnino in which Zendaya is the one who acts as a coach for her husband. The trailer for the film, which makes it clear that there is a consensual triangle between the two and another player and the much that has been said about their torrid sex scenes, triggered interest in the film, which was going to premiere at the Venice festival but was delayed its premiere due to the actors' strike.
SCHOOL COUNTDOWN IN THE MUSEUMS
The date, marked in red in many houses, is about to arrive. On the 6th the course in Infant and Primary Education begins in almost all schools. But there are still a few days of conciliatory juggling left. In Barcelona, the museums lend a hand. On Tuesday (and Saturday), for example, children over the age of 4 can still do the La Letrería calligraphy workshop in Caixafòrum, which also does not require prior registration. The MNAC always offers a couple of clue games, designed for people over seven years old, one that consists of taking an itinerary through the Romanesque collection and another through the Gothic art collection. And the Museu Egipci is offering this Sunday the possibility of holding a workshop on the treasures of Tutankhamen, for Egyptologists between the ages of 6 and 12.
MORE OF THIS CALAMITY PLEASE
The label “the series that everyone loves to hate” has rarely made as much sense as with the second season of And Just Like That. The sequel to Sex and the City returned last year with a first batch of absurd and poorly resolved chapters, but in its second season it reached new heights with plots that oscillated between the ridiculous and the implausible, characters that lost all their meaning. and incomprehensible creative decisions. Even so, everyone who criticized her (that is, all her viewers) stayed true until the very last episode, which culminated in an anticlimactic last dinner at Carrie's (Sarah Jessica Parker) old apartment and an enforced breakup. Shortly before airing on HBO Max, the network announced that the show has been renewed for a third season, so haters breathed a sigh of relief: there will be more material next year.
