La 1 broadcasts the second installment of the miniseries Laura and her mysteries. On Antena 3, the series Christ and King faces its final stretch with its penultimate episode. Science is present on La 2 with a new installment of Curiosity. In the field of cinema comes a masterpiece from the essential Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Tales, and an angry and committed film by Paul Greengrass, United 93.
‘United 93’
16.15, AMC
USA, 2006 (92 minutes). Director: Paul Greengrass. Cast: Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Khalid Abadía.
United Airlines Flight 93 was the only one of the 9/11 planes whose hijackers failed to accomplish their sinister objective. After the passengers rebelled, it crashed in Pennsylvania. Paul Greengrass reconstructs what happened in real time and creates images of unprecedented intensity with a hurried, nervous aesthetic that requires the viewer to lose any dramatic distance from what is happening on the screen. The realism that he embraces United 93 is merciless. His cinematic creativity is overwhelming.
‘Tokyo Tales’
22.00, TCM
Tokyo Monogatari. Japan, 1953 (130 minutes). Director: Yasujiro Ozu. Cast: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara.
In his creative maturity, the indispensable Ozu weaves a story about the disintegration of traditional Japan captured in the intergenerational gap. The depth of his staging, always with long shots and with his camera fixed at ground level, captures the elusive passage of time to turn it into a fragment of life.
‘Curiosity’ defies gravity
22.00, La 2
The La 2 programme, which looks at the scientific basis of everyday life, reveals how to take advantage of and outwit one of the most powerful forces in nature: gravity. It will thus discover how it is an essential element in construction that must be used to design extraordinary and unique buildings. But it will also try to outwit it and experiment by flying freely as if that force did not exist.
Penultimate episode of ‘Christ and King’
22.45, Antena 3
The series created by Daniel Écija and starring Jaime Lorente and Belén Cuesta is entering its final stretch with a penultimate episode that delves into the final stages of the marriage of Ángel Cristo and Bárbara Rey. The tamer has fallen into drugs and is about to drag his family down with him and Bárbara is determined to leave him and go away with her children. However, she offers him one last chance to change everything.
The return of Inspector Laura Lebrel
22.50, La 1
The second date with the miniseries Laura and her mysteries confronts Inspector Lebrel with a dangerous case. In fact, she could be at the mercy of a killer as she must investigate the strange deaths that occur in a hospital where she is admitted after an accident. To make matters worse, deaths occur both among patients and among medical staff.
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