On this day of television, cinema is doubly present: in La 2 is the head of Alfredo García, one of Maestro Sam Peckinpah’s last battle cries, and in Movistar Clásicos the comedy El marido de la peluquera, a taste of the sensitivity of the great Patrice Léconte. La 1 dedicates the evening to the Mocedades group with a report broadcast by Blood Ties. For its part, La 2 offers another seven-part marathon of the well-known series A Crime Has Been Written. In DMAX, the most spectacular escapes from the world’s toughest prisons are recreated with the help of actor Morgan Freeman.
“I want the head of Alfredo García”
12.45 p.m., the 2
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia. United States, 1974 (104 minutes). Director: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young.
After the violent outbursts that led to Straw Dogs and Getaway, Master Peckinpah filmed his saddest work, the memorable film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. A year later came Alfredo García’s “I want the head”, one of his last war cries. Peckinpah was caught in a torrential cycle of violence that erupted in torrents of anger. anger against the Hollywood producers who mutilated his films; also against the young filmmakers who despised the old masters in the 1970s. Finally, against a society that makes violence one of its driving forces. I Want Alfredo García’s Head is a soulful, gory and hallucinating film in which the main character is on a race to self-destruction accompanied by a rotten head that she must hand over to a heartless gangster.
“The Barber’s Husband”
17.10, Movistar Classics
Le Mari de la Coiffeuse. France, 1990 (80 minutes). Directed by Patrice Leconte. Performers: Jean Rocherfort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin.
A man who has dreamed of the scents of a hairdresser since childhood finds his perfect woman. With such a pretext for action, the great Patrice Léconte creates a luminous and sensual film, a poetic outburst of the first order that immerses the viewer in a world of sensations. As different as unforgettable.
“It wrote a crime”
10 p.m., the 2nd
Jessica Fletcher, the character played by Angela Lansbury, is set to air seven consecutive episodes of the series Murder, She Wrote on La 2 on Tuesday night. This week’s cases include Fletcher attending one of his students’ birthday parties, where a robbery plot happens to be on TV. During a holiday in Martinique, he also meets a detective friend who will be involved in a murder.
Morgan Freeman and a series of legendary escapes
22.30, DMAX
The documentary series “Historic Escapes” starring Morgan Freeman visits some of the best maximum security prisons in the world alongside acclaimed Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman. A production that explores the prison cells that have endured the most daring escape attempts: how were the most formidable escape plans devised, which managed to circumvent the strictest and most sophisticated security systems of the time?
“Blood Ties”, with Mocedades
22.35, 1st
50 years have passed since Mocedades took second place in the Eurovision Song Contest with the well-known song “Eres tú”. Tonight, Blood Ties tells the story of the Urangas, nine siblings who, encouraged by their parents, gathered together as a family to sing. Today, Amaya, Estíbaliz and Iñaki Uranga form “El Consorcio” together with Carlos Zubiaga. There are two other mocedades: that of Izaskun Uranga and that of Javier Garay. The three formations defend the same heritage.
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