The pressure for the return of the emeritus king Juan Carlos I even reaches the bullring. It is known that bullfighting is a hobby of the former head of state, but since 2019 he had not frequented a bullring to receive an ovation, which is what he always receives when he steps on them from his loyal public. The fervent applause happened again this Easter Sunday, when he attended the Real Maestranza in Seville to see the return of the bullfighter José Antonio Morante de la Puebla, who has supported the PP and Vox on different occasions. The attendees, standing, paid tribute to him despite the long shadow of corruption that pursues him. At the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, he already received a strong ovation in May 2019 and also visited the Aranjuez bullring in June 2019.

The Council of Ministers has banned any type of bullfighting spectacle that denigrates people with disabilities, and more specifically, those with dwarfism. The Spanish government gave the green light this Tuesday to an amendment to the regulations governing bullfighting events to eliminate the "legal loopholes" that some municipalities still "exploit" to hold public events featuring dwarf firefighters as bullfighters.

The film has arrived at the establishments of the branchAlbert Serra Afternoons of solitude, with the special participation of Andrés Roca Rey, a quality bullfighter. The fact that we can now see it three times, preferably on alternate days rather than consecutively, will perhaps give everyone a more seasoned idea of what the art of bullfighting entails.

These have been, for days, the two major topics of discussion in a not-so-distant galaxy called Madrid. At first glance, it may seem like a return to the times of the Transition and the films of the uncover, guy Gee with the divorceBut beyond the picturesque, in the background of these capital fights there is a regression in terms of fundamental rights and the very conception of society that affects us all.

José Antonio Morante Camacho, known as Morante de la Puebla, walked out of the main entrance of the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid yesterday, Sunday, after his last bullfight. The images of thousands of people carrying him on their backs, as if he weren't a person of flesh and blood but a messiah sent by God to spread the divine word, demonstrate that, at least in Madrid, bullfighting is still a mass spectacle that inspires great emotions. It's surprising to see, among Morante's audience, many young people (most of them with aesthetics). Cayetana) and many more boys than girls. However, something has changed compared to a few decades ago. Bullfighting in Madrid is no longer the interclass and popular phenomenon it had been; it's a new form of cultural warfare, a symbol of the new, unabashed right, which is why Morante is being challenged by its two top leaders, Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Santiago Abascal, to whom he dedicated his work yesterday.

For years, a brown-haired girl would ask moviegoers to be quiet when they were about to see a film in one of the theaters that had a navy blue B as their seal. It was a B for Grup Balañá, and the girl who ordered the audience to be quiet through a brief pre-film announcement was closely linked: she was Anna Martínez Balañá (Barcelona, 1992). Now, she is part of the fourth generation of one of the most influential families in the Catalan business world, the Balañá family. has just set foot in Telefónica. The telecom The Catalan bank, chaired by Marc Murtra, has appointed her as a member of the board of directors, and since last week she has held the position of independent director, making her one of the youngest directors on the Ibex35.

Film director Albert Serra (Banyoles, 1975) premieres this weekend Afternoons of solitude, the documentary about bullfighting that won the last Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival. People who know that I have already seen the film ask: "but is it for or against bullfighting?" Serra's artistic choice is to portray them as we have never seen them before. With the cameras and microphones so close that the beauty and brutality are magnified. The bull and the bullfighter, two beasts, facing each other in an ancient and deadly ritual, banned in Catalonia since 2011.

The interest in men who hover around death runs through much of Albert Serra's filmography. Afternoons of solitude, his first feature-length documentary, clearly shows the desire to capture, through a ceremonial and spectacular practice, this link with the death of a man willing to kill or, to a much lesser extent, to die in the attempt. Although it is part of a long artistic and intellectual tradition of attraction to bullfighting, the Banyolí filmmaker wanted to make a bullfighting film like no other had been seen. An achievement that involves a series of decisions regarding formal refinement and discursive enrichment. Afternoons of solitude There is no voice-over or interviews, so the proposal departs from the usual report, eliminating intermediaries between the film and the audience.