16 December
Useless advice
Say no.
Noelle
Not the usual story about Santa Claus.
In fact, Noelle is the main character, his daughter. She embarks on a journey searching for her older brother. He escaped from the North Pole because he had no intention of becoming the next Santa Claus. Noelle will have to convince him to return, actually discovering a lot about herself and her unwavering Christmas spirit.
Is it really the white beard and the big voice that makes Santa Claus Santa Claus?
A journey about self-discovery and one's own abilities.
It is a 100% Christmas comedy that makes us think about traditions and the need to change them if based on superficial details.
On Disney+.
The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas, Transworld Digital, 2021
"I don't feel close to the women here, but I see them as they are now. I don't know if I'm going to get out of here soon or never. I doubt that freedom is out there. I've spent most of my life outside these walls, and I haven't felt free. I don't think that's the goal to aspire to. Waiting to be set free is a vain and unbearable feeling."
1885. Paris. Salpêtrière, psychiatric hospital. Female.
Nonconformist women, rejected, abandoned, unmanageable.
Locked up and subjected to experiments by a society that calls them crazy exclusively because they are inconvenient.
Here we meet Luise, Eugenie, Geneviève, Thérèse. Although very different, they all have one thing clear: their fate has been decided by men.
The Mad Women's Ball, an annual event organized by the asylum to bring the patients together with wealthy Paris, is the only time they can meer the outside world.
Historical elements blend with our protagonists, the only fiction in the novel, who fight for the simple right to be a woman and have a thought, an opinion, an individuality.
A hymn to freedom. A legacy to be reckoned with.
