La 1 broadcasts live the match that Spain plays in Cyprus in the qualifying phase for the European Cup. Antena 3 reunites Los Javis with Joaquín in El novice. In “La Sexta” the Debts series continues with a double part. Cinephiles have two important dates: Mankiewicz’s masterpiece Suddenly Last Summer on Movistar Clásicos and Count on Me, a landmark of eighties cinema, on AXN Movies.
Cyprus-Spain, before Euro 2024
5.30 p.m., 1
There will be a new game for the Spanish team in the qualifying phase for the 2024 European Football Championship. Spain will face Cyprus in a game that seems comfortable on this occasion, as Luis de la Fuente’s players are mathematically already qualified for the European tournament, as they are leading the group with 15 points after six games.
‘Count on me’
10/20, AXN Films
Stand by Me. USA, 1986 (90 minutes). Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell.
With astonishing simplicity, Count on Me shows a slice of life: a few days in the lives of four 14-year-old boys. All you have to do is accompany them as they walk along the train tracks into the Maine woods to find an abandoned body. Count on Me features some of the most beautiful and heartfelt images of vintage 1980s American cinema. Images that arise from simplicity, from the warmth of a director’s gaze, from the performance of four young actors at the open grave… At the same time, the story offers a nostalgic song in which heat and bitterness, astonishment, mix. and desolation: in the looks of the children in Count on Me you can see the certainty that they have very little time left to penetrate the dirty world of adults.
“Suddenly last summer”
10 p.m., Movistar Classics
Suddenly, last summer. USA, 1959 (109 minutes). Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn.
In the 1950s, Maestro Mankiewicz not only filmed several of his own screenplays, but also adapted Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, Graham Greene in The Quiet American and Tennessee Williams in Suddenly Last Summer, a masterpiece as beautiful as it is harrowing. A story driven by jealousy, sex and secret obsessions, centered on a mother who is possessive to the point of desperation, a tormented neurosurgeon and an unbalanced young woman. They are all characters in search of handles that will allow them to understand the reality that surrounds them. Mankiewicz corners them in a harsh and brutal film, with an outcome that is as unexpected as it is bloody.
Double part of the “Debt” series
10:30 p.m., sixth
Raul Guerrero
Today’s two episodes of Debts, the series created by Daniel Écija, involve its characters in new adventures. They tell, among other things, how Doña Consuelo finds out that the person responsible for stealing Kandinsky’s painting is Iván and that she had the help of a member of the house, Rocío, so she begins to plan her revenge.
Joaquín, director of “Los Javis”
10:45 p.m., antenna 3
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi serve as Joaquín’s mentors in this episode of The Rookie. The pair will take stock of his career and offer the former footballer a masterclass in how to build a series from the ground up. Later, he will make his debut as a director and use what he learned on “Los Javis” to film a scene with two actors in which he will recreate one of the most important moments of his own life.
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