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This weekend COP27 ends, apparently without much hope, and on Sunday the World Cup begins. It will be a month to distract and a novelty for the southern hemisphere, where we will live it for the first time that I remember in our summer, until December 18, and where only one will celebrate. In the newspaper there are already bets, I do not dare because, the truth, I never blame him.
Next Tuesday also begins FIDOCS, which will run until November 30, and will debut with a documentary about the brand new Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux, and her passage through the Chile of Popular Unity. There will be eight feature films by established and emerging filmmakers from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, France, Russia, Sweden, the United States, Portugal and Spain. As for the national competition, they include the waiting of a wife to his partner in “Canción de una dama a la sombra”, by Carolina Astudillo, and “Me quiero que vivvieras mi juventud de nuevo” by Nicolás Guzmán, where two strangers unfold their most intimate memories to connect generations. Another work presents an investigation that involves a priest in the dropping of the atomic bomb in “El Veterano”, by Jerónimo Rodríguez, while in “Edita”, Pamela Pollak Aguiló’s debut film, the filmmaker reconstructs the story of her great-aunt with various archival materials that make us travel through the former Czechoslovakia, the Bauhaus and Chile. Likewise, Ignacio Agüero will arrive with “Notas para una película”, an essay documentary inspired by the vision of a foreigner on the pacification of Araucanía in the late nineteenth century, and “Tan Inmunda y Tan Feliz”, with Wincy Oyarce in direction, portrays with closeness and intimacy Hija de Perra, icon of the counterculture and dissidents of our country and Latin America.
In this edition: where is the best restaurant in Latin America, how the Webb telescope filmed the birth of a star and an art critic’s article against environmentalists’ attacks on works in museums around the world.
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1- MANUELA MARTELLI: “CHILE IS STILL AFRAID OF CHANGE”
The Chilean actress Manuela Martelli gave a long interview to the Spanish agency EFE about “1976”, her debut as a director in the feature film, with which she has been reaping several awards and which is the candidate of our country to the Goya awards of Spain.
“Chile is a country that manages in dualities, from the brightest to the darkest”, a country “capable of starring in a social explosion – that of 2019/2020 – that was like an awakening and the most massive march in history (…) and at the same time reject their own drive for change,” referring to the rejection in referendums of the new Constitution this year.
For Martelli (Santiago, 1983), this fear has to do with the legacy of the dictatorship and in particular with the roots of an ultraliberal country model where the citizen does not feel that the State can protect him.
“I had to live through the pandemic in Germany and for the first time I felt what it was like for a state to protect you; that doesn’t happen in Chile, if you get sick or something unexpected happens to you, you have to fend for yourself and that means you cross the poverty line very quickly.”
Martelli recalled that Chilean society is “dominated by a very privileged class, very small and with a lot of power” and that this has not changed: “The big question is whether we will be able to build a more egalitarian society where basic rights are guaranteed, access to education and health, because that does not exist today.”
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2- THREATENING ART IS NOT A RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Jonathan Jones, jury of the prestigious Turner Prize, published a heartfelt text in the British newspaper The Guardian, where he criticizes the attitude of some environmentalists to attack works of art to draw attention to the environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing.
“It is arrogant of activists who attacked Klimt to assume that anyone concerned about art does not also care about the planet,” he said, referring to an action at a Vienna museum.
“What’s next? Oil in Picasso? Threaten Art is not a response to the climate crisis,” the note headlines. Jones also found that “the worse the treatment of the artwork, the greater the media coverage.”
“There is little chance that governments will change their policies because of these protests. On the other hand, there is a good chance that a great work of art will finally be destroyed,” he warned. “I cannot pretend to respect this form of protest. It doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t have any moral coherence.”
Finally, the art critic warned that the attack on Klimt, in this case, has a disastrous precedent: “In 1945, after Hitler’s death, an SS unit set fire to a castle in southern Austria, which contained some of his greatest works, and destroyed them forever.”
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3- FINALLY: THEY SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCH THE ARTEMIS 1 MISSION
And finally, the fourth was the loser: NASA launched its new and gigantic lunar rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), with the aim of laying the foundations for a sustainable human presence on the surface of the Moon and advancing on the path to manned missions to the red planet. Mars. The goal of the Artemis program is to return with humans to the Moon, after 50 years of absence.
The liftoff from Kennedy Space Center occurred Wednesday after three failed attempts since August and its specific mission is to propel a test capsule, called Orion, away from Earth.
This spacecraft will circle the Moon in a large arc before returning home to land in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11.
If all goes according to plan, in 2025, Artemis-3 will be the first moon landing since the Apollo 17 mission, 1972.La mission will also include the first female astronaut and the first black person to reach the Moon.
At that point, astronauts should have habitats and roving vehicles on the Moon.
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4- IN PERU, THE BEST RESTAURANT IN LATIN AMERICA
I am a total fan of Peruvian cuisine, for me the best in Latin America and probably one of the best in the world. A romance that began back in 2004, when I lived in Buenos Aires and read an article in the supplement “Radar” of the newspaper Página 12 about a place in the neighborhood of Once.
It was love at first sight, which then continued in Santiago with the restaurant “Johana” in the Yungay neighborhood, where we came to live as a family after the trans-Andean adventure, and that until today is attended by its owners (a greeting for Vilma and Jaime) and the Ají Seco chain (my favorite is the underground of Plaza de Armas). Not forgetting the chapter of “Street Food Latin America”, on Netflix, dedicated to the chef Tomás Matsufuji: it tells how a PhD in chemistry in the United Kingdom was dedicated to making street food in the Peruvian capital. Idol.
All this to tell you that the S. Pellegrino awards have just defined that “El Central” of Lima is the best in Latin America. Among the 10 best places to four Peruvians and the second place is occupied by Don Julio, from Buenos Aires. Chile is in 10th place, with Boragó de Vitacura.
Every year, since 2013, the rating of the best cuisines in Latin America is prepared with the anonymous votes of experts in the field of gastronomy, chefs, critics, prestigious gourmets, gastronomic writers and restaurateurs spread throughout the continent, explain on the organization’s website. A group of 300 people with balance of both sexes, they say, that the same can vote for a lost restaurant in the Amazon or a renowned one in Mexico City. Each one nominates their 10 favorites. The voting and results are carried out by the consulting firm Deloitte.
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5- THE WEBB CAPTURES THE BIRTH OF A STAR
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to be talked about. On this occasion it has revealed with its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) the characteristics, previously hidden, of the protostar L1527, embedded within a cloud of material that fuels its growth. The image provides a glimpse of the formation of a new star.
Despite the chaos that L1527 is causing, it is only about 100,000 years old, a relatively young body, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement.
Given its age and brightness in far-infrared light, L1527 is considered a class 0 protostar, the earliest stage of star formation.
These types of protostars, which are still shrouded in a dark cloud of dust and gas, have a long way to go before they become full-fledged stars.
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