Perceptions change with time, of course. Above all those who are not happy with each other. I remember many times, so many vint anys, a constant queixa entre los meves amistats was the lack of great cultural events in the Balearic Islands. Tothom pompously speculated on the possibilities that Mallorca offered to install a music or film festival in conditions, and finally it is all prenia with a mena of patriotic repte: “Or is it that we are not as important as Canes, nosaltres? Aren’t we a Mediterranean paradise? Etc.
Doncs bé, som a l’any 2024 and there is that offer that we so long for: the Mallorca Life Festival responds in a way that is perfectly comparable to what is felt by a major festival, and the Atlàntida Film Festival is a perfectly impeccable example of what should be a meeting of this kind of people who make cinema. At the head of the fi, there is a company like Filmin, headed by an illustrious Mallorcan, the very skilled Jaume Ripoll, who applies very lucid criteria. When I went to interview him in 2016, Atlantis was facing an infant and Ripoll left him a rather broad but very accurate and current headline: “We aspire to think about Europe from the cinema and culture in a dramatic moment for the continent” and in a society whose main drugs are cynicism, distrust and nostalgia.” The following editions have been confirmed by envelopes.
From the MLF in the few days, and the Atlantis of Enguany, the fourteenth, begins on July 19. And I, as a friend, am ready to jump for joy at asking you questions about the business model, the balance between business and art (a doubt, the latter, valid for any music festival in the city), your connection with tourist saturation, etc. Finally, my republican spirit snorts loudly every time you touch it, you see Dona Letizia Ortiz inaugurating the end of Atlantis, a strange thing that speaks of the convenience with which power, like capitalism, appropriates any potential space. liberator.
But now it’s time to write this postcard, addressed to all readers in the Catalan language, and it turns out that you suspect it despite being very grateful for an exquisite program (for Atlàntida) that allows, among other things, things, discover On the sidelines, the new film by Eduardo Casanova, a director with a special peculiarity: he knew how to take risks. I l’agraïment is a massa noble emotion for menystenir-la. However, if the reader from Barcelona, Gandia, Girona or Ciutadella wants to visit Mallorca this summer, here is a tip: your trip may coincide with the festival that Ripoll has prepared. Hi it will be Liv Ullmann, and I do not rule out crying when she is vegi.
