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Culture

“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales

“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales

March 4, 2024

What materials make up a life? What role do maturity, experiences, memories, and stimuli play in building a world in which one will spend the...

Leila’s brothers and a victimized generation

Leila’s brothers and a victimized generation

February 12, 2024

Saeed Roustayi's film, for better or worse, is a reflection of its time. More specifically, not only of its time but of an entire generation...

Jules et Jim: the psychological realism in the tragic narrative of Truffaut

Jules et Jim: the psychological realism in the tragic narrative of Truffaut

February 11, 2024

In the early 1960s, François Truffaut had already declared war on the traditionalism of French cinema, with the declaration that officially opened the doors of...

A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness

A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness

April 11, 2023

The Palme d’Or of 2022 was the magnifying glass that History needs, in order for someone to focus on a very small scale, on micro-societies,...

Aphrodite’s Child – 6 6 6: When Greeks Made Great Music.

Aphrodite’s Child – 6 6 6: When Greeks Made Great Music.

June 19, 2020

Greece produces more culture than it can consume. Perhaps that’s why it often prefers to consume more accessible products, those made by small people for...

The narration of Theo Angelopoulos’ “Borders”

The narration of Theo Angelopoulos’ “Borders”

April 22, 2020

I decided to share a conversation in a few pages, the kind of conversation I would have leaving a cinema, conversations that are missing, along...

Never too old for what it never dies

Never too old for what it never dies

January 17, 2020

Jethro Tull is one of the groups that shaped the unique and gone musical style of progressive rock. Prog had a uniqueness of variety in...

Time for Space

Time for Space

March 21, 2018

I was given a ship in the middle of the ocean I didn’t know where we’re coming from I often ask my companions I’m listening...

Sports

A legendary rugby match – 30 years later

A legendary rugby match – 30 years later

May 27, 2020

It has been 30 years since a day that belongs to the anthology of rugby, particularly remembered in France, but is also among the fundamental...

The vindication of history

The vindication of history

April 24, 2019

There are significant events that happen from time to time and provoke exaggeration in their commentary, called unparalleled, incomparable, and other similar adjectives. However, beyond...

Since 2017, one of the most powerful political positions in the world is occupied by a person who created a shock when he was a…

Books

Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast

September 6, 2020

In 1964, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of his writings about his life in Paris during the 1920s. At that time, the future famous author...

“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written

“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written

March 9, 2020

Usually, when I decide to write a book review on this blog, the project involves a book that I want to share with a wider...

Cosmos 2: Attempting the impossible

Cosmos 2: Attempting the impossible

March 9, 2020

40 years after the writing of one of the most beautiful books of all time, the legendary Cosmos by Carl Sagan, the endeavor to write...

The Penguin History of the World, by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad

The Penguin History of the World, by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad

October 9, 2018

I’m a passionate of history and more precisely of global history, the ensemble of the evolution of humanity on our planet, from its first steps...

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