La 1 will broadcast the game live of the Copa del Rey between Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid. For its part, La 2 combines its two scientific programs by proposing a visit by the Órbita Laika team to the flux capacitors room. Prime time on Antena 3 is occupied by the second episode of the series Entre tierras. As far as cinema is concerned, two films stand out in the program: While the War Lasts by Alejandro Amenábar on Movistar Cine Español and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by David Fincher on TCM.
“As long as the war lasts”
5.30 p.m., Spanish cinema Movistar
Spain, 2019 (103 minutes). Director: Alejandro Amenabar. Artists: Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego.
Amenábar offers an example of a cinema that analyzes history to try to understand the present from understanding the past. The figure of Unamuno, contradictory but always monumental, fills a story that is carried by a production that is as slow as it is precise.
Atlético-Real Madrid Copa del Rey
9:30 p.m., 1
Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid meet again in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. A tie that will be played in a single game at the Metropolitan Stadium, where the Madridistas will face the duel as the new champions of the Super Cup and the Atlético players will have a chance for revenge after their defeat in the semi-finals of this competition against the Merengues.
“Laika Orbit”, in “The Flux Capacitor”
10 p.m., La 2
The members of the Laika Órbita space visit the flux capacitor this week and unite the two scientific programs of La 2. In this episode they will address the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who was involved in the Manhattan Project. They will also show how history and science work in heritage restoration, help understand the origins of the scientific method, and analyze medieval Islamic science.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
10 p.m., TCM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. USA, 2008 (165 minutes). Director: David Fincher. Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton.
Perhaps The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the film that most clearly shows the essence of David Fincher's cinema. A director whose style is based on the purity of the production, on the expressive thoroughness of his images. In this way, it is his careful calligraphy that elicits all the emotion from this terrible metaphor of humanity's transience, the portrait of a man born with the body of an 80-year-old who rejuvenates over time.
Second episode of “Between the Lands”
10:45 p.m., antenna 3
The second part of Entre tierras, the series played by Megan Montaner, Unax Ugalde and Juanjo Puigcorbé, among others, is full of conflict for its characters. The episode tells how María has to cope with her new life on the Cervantes farm and how she meets all the day laborers during the grape harvest. For his part, Manuel, her new husband, is tormented by his memories in the tavern, while the shadow of his former wife, who has disappeared into the forest, hangs over him.
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