TVE is dedicated to the Basketball World Cup and broadcasts all the matches of Spain, who make their debut against Ivory Coast today. In La 1, the classic appointment every Saturday with the weekly report, the recent elections in Ecuador and the success of the women’s soccer team at the World Cup are analyzed. Among the film offerings is the work of Juan Antonio Bayona, whose The Impossible recreates the tragedy of the 2004 tsunami that struck the coast of Southeast Asia, killing thousands. On the other hand, Delicatessen clearly shows why Jeunet and Caro represented the creative vanguard of French commercial cinema for years. Also one of Brian de Palma’s best films of the ’90s, the electronic thriller Snake Eyes.
Spain debuts at the Basketball World Cup
15.30, 2nd
The Spanish basketball team makes its debut against the Ivory Coast team in the World Cup, which will be held in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Tournament involving 32 teams and awarding seven direct tickets to the next Paris 2024 Olympic Games. TVE will broadcast all matches in Spain and the final stages of the championship. The national team’s next outings will be on Monday 28th against Brazil at 15:30 and on Wednesday 30th against Iran at the same time.
Review of the news in the “Weekly Report”
21.30, 1st
The Weekly Report area includes two reports. The first part, Ecuador, Electoral Violence, proposes an analysis of the recent elections in Ecuador, held after the assassination of candidate Villavicencio during the country’s state of emergency election campaign. Next, The Glory of the Champions focuses on the success of the Spanish women’s soccer team at the World Cup, somewhat marred by the unacceptable behavior of the President of the Federation, Luis Rubiales.
‘The impossible’
15.40, four
Spain, 2012 (107 minutes). Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland.
Bayona’s second film after his acclaimed The Orphanage smashed box office worldwide thanks to the director’s sincerity and passion with which he approached a story of great dramatic depth. The Impossible follows a family caught up in a terrible tsunami that struck the coast of Southeast Asia in 2004, killing thousands. The reconstruction of the catastrophe that the film offers is both technically and staging flawless and puts the viewer in the middle of the drama. While the film’s second half lags a bit, largely due to its overuse of pervasive music that only underscores what the images already provide, Bayona’s guts and visual commitment amplifies its commitment. In addition, the film grows when a gigantic actress like Naomi Watts is on the screen.
‘deli’
10 p.m. TCM
France, 1991 (100 minutes). Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Performers: Dominique Pinon, Pascale Benezech.
With good reason, Jeunet and Caro were the creative avant-garde of French commercial cinema for years. His inexhaustible ability to create images as surprising as they are fantastic explodes in Delicatessen, which travels to the priceless world of a tenement, a sort of rue del Percebe 13, where an indescribable fauna of characters coexists in a world plagued by hunger for something indefinite post-war period. Delicatessen is a futuristic fable that satirizes social injustice in a universe where the strong literally eat the weak.
‘Snake-eyes’
22.05, COSMO
Snake-eyes. United States, 1998 (94 minutes). Director: Brian DePalma. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard.
Brian de Palma’s career was a little disoriented in the 1990s, but it found some new life in this powerful thriller, in which the author even allowed himself formal experiments like the brilliant, complex and extremely long sequence at the beginning of the film. Snake Eyes isn’t perfect, of course, but it’s guaranteed emotional whiplash as Nicolas Cage avoids the assassination of a prominent figure during a boxing match.
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