La Sexta broadcasts the third episode of the miniseries Doctor Muerte. For its part, La 2 insists on the series A Murder Has Been Written with another marathon of seven episodes. DMAX offers a new appointment with the documentary series Spain after the war. Francoism in color. As far as cinema is concerned, two films with different intentions meet today: Clint Eastwood’s terrible portrait of society in “Mystic River” and the cheerful parody of cinema and crime fiction in “A Corpse at Desserts”.
“A corpse for dessert”
1 p.m., Movistar Classics
Murder by death. USA, 1976 (90 minutes). Director: Robert Moore. Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Peter Falk, Truman Capote, James Coco.
Some of the most famous detectives from film and literature are invited to their villa by an eccentric millionaire. Among them are Charlie Chan, Poirot and Sam Spade. They all face the challenge of solving a crime that is committed on the same day. Of course, the parodic tone is always present in A Corpse at Desserts, but the story also offers a precise reflection of the codes of a genre that forces the viewer to take on the role of a detective themselves.
‘Mystical River’
10:00 p.m., Hollywood
United States, 2003 (137 minutes). Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden.
The three friends who star in “Mystic River” have shared a secret since childhood; a record that crushes them and which, without remedy, re-emerges, shattered, 25 years later. They all live in a sick society in which violence, ambition and dirtiness are the order of the day. Clint Eastwood sniffs into the open wounds of this society and paints a horrific and aggressive portrait of people’s inhumanity. Three actors in a state of grace, led by the sublime Tim Robbins, sustain a powerful film that attacks the viewer’s emotional support in order to shock him and plunge him into reality: the reality that one always prefers not to look at .
New marathon of “A Murder Wrote”
10 p.m., La 2
Angela Lansbury plays the lead role in the series A Murder Wrote, of which La 2 broadcasts seven episodes in a row. In today’s episodes, among other things, she will investigate a friend’s accusation of causing the car accident in which her husband almost died. He will also travel to Ireland, where a police inspector friend stayed in a hotel where ghosts appear to be seen.
Third episode of “Doctor Death”
10:30 p.m., sixth
The series “Doctor Death,” starring Joshua Jackson, tells the true story of Christopher Duntsch, a renowned doctor who performed several spinal surgeries that resulted in very serious damage or death to his patients. This episode follows Duntsch trying to get a leave of absence from another hospital in the area after raising suspicions about his current job. Meanwhile, Agents Henderson and Kirby attempt to interrogate a person who played a crucial role in their upbringing.
Images of Francoism in color
10:30 p.m., DMAX
The documentary series Spain after the war. Francoism in Color offers a portrait of Spanish society during the nearly four decades of dictatorship, thanks to modern color techniques applied to surviving archival images. The latest digital image processing techniques offer a new perspective on the post-war years in Spain.
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