pain and glory
The cinema is for the whole year. For rainy autumn afternoons. Cold winter nights and very hot summer nights. But it is precisely in this last season that a film, outdoors, when the sun has gone down and it begins to cool down, perhaps feels better. Cinephile dreams of a summer night.
If you have spent those summer nights in your town or a neighboring town, a town you passed by casually, sitting in a (not very comfortable) chair, watching a title released throughout the year or recovering a classic, you will know what We speak. You will remember that feeling. When you could even bring dinner (sausage sandwich) or gorge yourself on pipes, popcorn or liquorice.
A movie in a summer theater tastes different. That is why, surely, the Film Circuit of the Community of Madrid What are you celebrating this summer? its 22 edition It is one of the longest. Not even covid can with him. Precisely because of this damn pandemic, it still seems like a great plan.
Losing the East.
Until September 12 and inside the Summer Scenes Festival, the Film Circuit will tour some thirty Madrid municipalities with fewer than 15,000 inhabitants to screen in squares and public spaces more than 50 movies. Of course, on the big screen.
Among the titles selected this year, family films and films for all audiences stand out, such as The Lego Movie 2, Scooby, The Addams Family, Pokémon, Detective Pikachu, Hotel Transylvania 3, Jumanji, The Next Level either peter rabbit There is no better way to introduce children to the world of cinema than at these outdoor events.
Recent Spanish cinema and big national hits are also an important part of this year's summer festival: like the terror of Malasana 32 or blockbuster comedies Father there is only one Y Father there is only one 2: the arrival of the mother-in-law. Also The Japans, Losing the East or the (pen)last film by Pedro Almodóvar, pain and glory
Margot Robbie is Sharon Tate in wonderful LA.
And there is no shortage of international blockbusters and author titles from recent years such as Joker, Tenet, Little Women, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Green Book, A Star Is Born or whiplash.
Among the municipalities that will host this large open-air screen, there are towns in the mountains such as cercedilla, calf, Buitrago de Lozoya, Miraflores, Navacerrada, Rascafría or Moralzarzal. Also a town in the southeast of the Community of Madrid such as Tielmes, Nuevo Baztán or Chinchon.
This festival adds an excuse to visit them, make a route through some of these charming places and cultural plans all summer.