The adaptation of the biography The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort has arrived to the cinemas around the world in its scallywag version and has seduced the industry. Winner of so many prizes highlight the Critics Choice and the Golden Globes awards. Nominated for five Oscars, the film shows the life of the New York stock broker Jordan Belfort since he is an honored young man chasing the American dream until he achieves the success. Everything is allowed to obtain the objective.
In the sixties, a catalan photographer was able to capture street instants from the Barcelona’s Barrio Chino. Prostitutes, homeless, homosexuals, gypsies and children are the unknown protagonists of a black and white testimony about post-war life in this marginal district. This is the main work of Joan Colom, an artist borned in 1921 who managed to portray the beauty hidden in dismal, grotesque and obscene situations.
The last 2013 was the commemoration of the century of the birth of Salvador Espriu (1913-1985). Salvador Espriu i Castelló was a catalan poet, playwright and novelist, son of a wealthy family. He studied law and ancient history in the University of Barcelona. But apart from that, what marked his childhood and his life was the death of his brothers. But Espriu is reminded because of the importance of his work. Along with Josep Pla and Josep Maria de Sagarra, he renewed the catalan prose.
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