The issue related to the abuse of children and young people by some priests is in the Spanish case very complex and has very deep roots, since Spain is the cradle of Catholicism, spread with the conquest of Latin America, and is rooted in its structures. given its proximity to political power, the Church even participating in State decisions. In fact, during the Franco regime members of Opus Dei directed ministries such as Finance, Commerce and Industry; and since the advent of democracy until today they occupy key positions in the government and the business sector, although they have also been tried for illicit practices.

If the Oscars ceremony had lost luster and viewership since the pandemic, it would be expected that in such a crucial year for the industry, which were the two simultaneous strikes that paralyzed it for months and the threat of new technologies, especially evil Using artificial intelligence, the artistic community would have done more than its share to convey contemporary urgencies. But beyond host Jimmy Kimmel's shout-out to the behind-the-scenes workers who supported the strike, there was little echo of it, dissolving the rest of the night into bad jokes, predictable performances, and mostly unimaginative acceptance speeches.

Beyond the pandemic, the beginning of the second decade of this millennium has brought a radicalization of ideologies and the siege of free thought and differences, censoring books, attacking those who deviate from traditional regulations and promoting laws to prohibit discussion of topics associated with otherness. Cinema, for its part, has responded to the resulting increase in racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, producing films where such intolerances are denounced, or the fears of those who exercise social control are satirized.

When Rolf Liebermann became director of the Paris Opera in 1973, he planned to avoid the elitist concept of opera, so that it would reach the majority of the public. His management turned the city, after a period of certain crisis, into a cultural reference throughout Europe.
Liebermann began preparations to bring his most beautiful pieces to the cinema, such as Mozart's Don Giovanni. After presenting the idea to the new head of the Gaumont production company, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, both agreed on the attractiveness of the project to carry it out, as a film

The story is about a brilliant black writer, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), who maintains exceptional literary quality throughout his career but fails to sell his books massively, until he discovers that a writer of the same level, Sintara Golden, He gets great success selling junk literature. Sintara's books sell like hotcakes, thanks to completely stereotyped African-American characters, to the taste of the WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant) population.