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Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Victoria by Sebastian Schipper is a movie of two hours and eighteen minutes shot in a single long take.

A portait of the author of Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf.

Books

Mrs Dalloway | Time, death and longevity

Mrs Dalloway is a story of a seemingly vapid woman struggling with time, death and the meaning of existence, while her doppelgänger succumbs.

Comics

Persepolis | An intimate narration of war

First published in 2009, Marjane Satrapi graphic novel Persepolis is an intimate narration of war in Iran as the author lived it.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, two superheroes facing each other

TV Shows

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | What does it mean to be American

After the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier have to deal with a new enemy, but with themselves as well.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Directed by Wes Anderson and based on Roald Dahl’s tale, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a story of animal and human and how those opposite can coexist.

Poems

The Atmosphere Is Incandescent | De Castro’s Journey Inward

The subject of this poem is summer, presented, rather unusually, as the hardest of seasons.

Books

D’amore si muore ma io no | How to survive in real love

Published in 2016, Guido Catalano first novel is an autobiographical fiction about love and how love reaches the end in real life.

Memories of My Melancholy WHores ! In th Distance Between Lovers

Books

Memories of My Melancholy Whores | In the space dividing lovers

Published in 2004, Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Màrquez tells the story of a ninety-year-old man who falls in love for the first time.

Books

Like Water for Chocolate | A Novel of food and magical realism

The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), in 1989.

Comics

The Forbidden Harbor | A safe literary dock for lost humanity

Written by Teresa Radice and Stefano Turconi, The Forbidden Harbor tells the story of Abel, a castaway that finds his safe literary dock.

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The Undoing is not only a murder story

Two girls in Guatemala City, in a scene from Gunpowder Heart

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

The Portrait of Mrs. Isabel Styler-Tas, painted in 1945, exemplifies Salvador Dalì's unique take on the the so-called paranoiac-critical method.

The Portrait of Madame Isabel Styler-Tas shows Dalì’s method

Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Songs for the Deaf | Our darkest emotions

Selma - An old photo of the front line of the Selma to Montgomery march 1965 w/ Martin Luther King Jr.

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

The image shows a house in a forest- like terrain shrouded by a mysterious fog. It suits the mood of the record

Visions of Bodies Being Burned | Beyond the greatest horrors

Detail study for the façade of Milan cathedral 1700–1773, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

Song to a Seagull | The Making of Joni Mitchell

Joseph the Carpenter - Painting of an old man (Saint Joseph) and child holding a candle

Joseph the Carpenter shows de la Tour’s mise-en-scene

Growth in three stages, from child to girl to woman.

Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain

Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess

The Walking Dead explores human nature

Emmanuelle Riva in Amour by Michael Haneke

Amour | An experience

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

Chernobyl - A woman and two men are discussing inside a room on a plan to follow and save millions of lives

Chernobyl | What history can teach

In the Mood for Love shapes solitude and expectation. It does so through locations as well. This image shows two tree trunks inside the ancient temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Angkor Wat is an important location in the movie.

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Painting of the raising of Lazarus by Caravaggio

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Sex Education | How hard being normal can be

Big Little Lies protagonists at the police department

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

The image shows a nightlife local in stockholm

Welfare Jazz | A furious cacophony for country outlaws

Windswept Adan - In this image we see a rocky shoreline and a piece of land in the distance with some mountains

Windswept Adan | Healing music for pandemic times

(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? | Britpop’s finest

I’ll Steal You Away | Big dreams and sad realities in Ammaniti’s Ischiano Scalo

A woman is sitting at a desk inside an office and another woman is standing in front of her, discussing an investigation case

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

The Man Standing Next Still from the Movie by Woo Min HO

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Otto Dix's Metropolis shows the contrast between poverty and social difficulties after WWI, with the excesses and energy of the metropolitan nightlife.

Otto Dix’s Metropolis displays social and existential crisis

What feed journalists in The Newsroom

An illustrative image from the movie Soul (Disney-Pixar, 2020)

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

Disintegration | A journey of purification and reconstruction

Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen chugging a bottle of champagne in Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round

Another Round | Awakening to Life

There Existed An Addiction To Blood -A red flow, as blood in the veins.

There Existed An Addiction To Blood | Between cinema and human nature

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Achtung Baby | When U2 dreamt it all up again

Lust for Life combines Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s talent

Berserk | The path of the Black Swordsman

The Seven Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s Life in Twenty-Four Chapters is an adventure novel based on a true story told in a TV interview by Lars von Trier.

The 7 Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s Life in 24 Chapters

Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND.

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

Illustration of Charles Bukowski, Post Office's author, in yellow and black

Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot

The Keeper by Patrizia Cavalli | Pleasure has no doors

Palazzeschi The Sick Fountain -Areca palm

The Sick Fountain | A joke on traditional poetry

Galavant | A different happily ever after

An image from 9eyes' archive. Jon Rafman's 9eyes is a collection of images taken from Google Street View, addressing human vulnerability and the issue of privacy.

Jon Rafman’s 9eyes addresses the issue of privacy

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Glee | The anthem of underdogs worldwide

A maze is a house built purposely to confuse men

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Hachette cover of a Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Through examples taken from everyday life, The Good and Bad Government produces an effective declaration of political and didactic intent.

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim

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