La Sexta presents tonight the premiere of the series Debates, the latest production by Daniel Écija. In La 2, On the Cover broadcasts a report on the chef’s NGO Chema de Isidro Gastronomía Solidaria. Antena 3 offers a new date with El novice in which Manuel Carrasco will try to transform Joaquín into a singer. The cinema will be represented on the day by Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable comedy Punch-Drunk Love and a Robert Aldrich classic “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
“What happened to Baby Jane?”
6:15 p.m., Movistar Classics
United States, 1962 (136 minutes). Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford.
Two mature sisters, retired actresses, experience their particular downfall in the mire of a hatred that they have harbored since childhood. Robert Aldrich’s camera follows them with a hardened gaze to create a horrific Grand Guignol spectacle, but also a dirty portrait of the mud that people hide. There is an X-ray image of misery in the maddened gaze of Bette Davis as she dedicates herself to torturing the frail Joan Crawford, culminating in a final sequence that is as frightening as it is cruel.
“Punch Drunk Love”
20.05, Movistar Drama
USA, 2002 (90 minutes). Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Cast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
“Punch Drunk Love” is a rarity in Paul Thomas Anderson’s tortured film world. After the monumental stylistic exercise “Boogie Nights” and the devastating drama “Magnolia,” Anderson embarked on a romantic comedy that seemed light only at first glance and, in the incredulous new millennium, concealed nothing less than an apology for love as the source of life and happiness . Romantic comedy, yes, but sometimes close to the spirit of the absurd thanks to a plot that alternates crazy comic sequences with something bitter to follow a chaotic subject who lives under the control of his seven sisters and is unable to control his To communicate loneliness beyond which a paradise of happiness opens up with the appearance of Emily Watson’s eyes.
“On the cover”, with a kitchen in solidarity
9:50 p.m., La 2
The report “The Kitchen of Opportunities”, which premieres today on the cover, looks at the youth integration project of the chef Chema de Isidro, who welcomes young people at risk of social exclusion with the aim of thanks to the cooking course he teaches to rebuild their lives the school of the NGO Gastronomía Solidaria. More than 4,000 students have passed through his kitchens and 90% of them have channeled their life path.
Premiere of the series “Debt”
10:30 p.m., sixth
Daniel Écija is the creator of Debts, the new series from Sexta. A mischievous and provocative comedy that focuses on the wild encounter between two families and especially two women. Carmen Maura leads the cast along with Salva Reina, Carmen Ruiz and Mona Martínez, among others. In 13 episodes, Debts brings together the steps of a widow who could have been an “Almodóvar girl,” a dead Venezuelan singer, a delinquent nephew and an ambitious city councilor who wants to become mayor of Madrid, among several insane characters.
Joaquín sings with Manuel Carrasco
10:45 p.m., antenna 3
Manuel Carrasco is Joaquín’s guest on The Rookie this week. The singer and composer becomes the former footballer’s new mentor in an episode in which Carrasco reflects on his beginnings in the world of music and talks about his professional career. Joaquín will thus also take on a new role, that of a singer, for which he will have the help of Àngel Llàcer, who will advise him and show him the peculiarities of the profession. You’ll even enjoy a fun meal in the company of Manuel Carrasco’s wife Almudena Navalón, his musical director David and his manager Carlos.
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