Just as Inner City sang «Let me take you to a place I know you wanna go” in that mythical year of 1988, we will also try to be a beacon of the culture and lifestyle that gravitate around A CASA PORTUGUESA.
Without any regularity, but whenever we have something to share, here you will have fresh recommendations of those exciting things that make life good!
- Mi First Festival
Last days: 22nd and 23rd November - Various cinemas in Barcelona
My First Festival is an international film event designed especially for children (aged 2 to 12). Its aim is to bring children closer to the world of cinema in a fun and educational way, through a selection of short and feature films from different countries, interactive activities, audiovisual creation workshops and special sessions with live music.
The festival promotes creativity, critical thinking and cultural discovery, offering families a unique opportunity to enjoy cinema as an authentic artistic experience. If you don't have a programme for the kids this weekend, don't miss this opportunity.
Thus begin to form the new audiences so fundamental to preserving an art form that has already seen better days. Fewer electronic gadget screens and more wall screens. The world is grateful.
More info at: https://primerfestivaldecine.com
- PYE CORNER AUDIO
12th December / 20h00 - CASA MONTJUIC
If there is only one concert to choose for the next few days, it is Pye Corner Audio's concert at the increasingly excellently programmed Casa Montjuic as part of its thematic programme “Music for Airports».
This project by the British producer Martin Jenkins, draws a disturbing electronic music that mixes analogue echoes, radiophonic aesthetics and a collective nostalgia. His latest work, ‘Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow’, combines remastered material and new pieces in a hypnotic landscape where the futuristic and the old coexist in the same frequency.
For those who come early there is a bonus warm up dj set with Howodd Bensonmumm and surely before everything a glass of wine in the Tiberi Bar. See you there.
Memória - Rosalia, Carminho (2025)
The uncontrollable record of the end of the year is not a great record.
But she has moments, and the greatest of them all is singing in Portuguese! A fado project that Carminho had already half done and that the two of them together have transformed into a moment for history. “Memória” for future memória. Even the stones cry when they hear this.
The surprise is no greater because on her last live visit to Portugal Rosalia had already declared her admiration for Carminho and sang one of her fados bareback, which generated a “deafening» silence in the venues.
Asterix in Lusitania - text by Fabcaro and drawings by Didier Conrad (2025)
Finally our favourite Gauls visit “Portugal” or Lusitania, as it was known at the time of the Roman Empire. After some less successful adventures of the irreducible Gauls with Jean-Yves Ferri's scripts, the good form seems to be back with Fabcaro at the helm.
Conrad's drawings maintain the classic line as if Uderzo himself were drawing them. As in previous visits to other “countries”, there are a host of local idiosyncrasies exaggerated to give it that fine touch of humour so characteristic of the series. This time, among them, there is a battle with “pastelitos de Belém” which is only no more mythical because they are not from A Casa Portuguesa.
Indispensable this Christmas.
Pluribus (Season 1/Apple TV+) - Vince Gilligan (2025)
Vince Gilligan does it again. After Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul (two of the best series of all time), he completely changes register, but his signature brand is still very much present: highly original cinematographic and narrative challenges to support the most elaborate reflections, all with his trademark sense of black humour. A slow but tight cinematic tempo that contrasts with the unbridled speed of most of today's audiovisuals.
And behind this hybrid work that mixes science fiction with black humour and existential reflection is a big question for today: is a world where everyone thinks alike but is happy better, or is it worth keeping the self even if it suffers? As a bonus, it is a marvel to see Rhea Seehorn's complex performance, who is definitely one of today's best actresses, almost all the time on the screen.
The best of Fridays while it lasts.
