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The Snow Circle confirms that there is an outstanding filmmaker in Juan Antonio Bayona to film the disaster. Of The Impossible in 2012, story of a family separated by the tsunami which took place in Thailand on December 26, 2004, in A few minutes after midnight in 2016, a heartbreaking drama with a child facing his mother’s incurable illness as the hero, the Spanish filmmaker seems to have found the recipe for telling moving stories without requiring the proper functioning of our tear systems.

How is it ? How does it manage, even on our small televisions, to plunge us so viscerally into the heart of devastation? At the origins of Snow Circle, there is a stunning story that marked its time. That of a plane crash, in October 1972, with a Uruguayan rugby team on board seeking to go to Chile to play a match. Lost in the middle of the Andes, the injured or very weakened survivors find themselves fighting against the hostility of the elements: the freezing cold to begin with, to which are quickly added the lack of resources and a mental health that is deteriorating. drifts as the days pass and the hope of being rescued or simply found fades.

Juan Antonio Bayona spares the viewer nothing, neither from the violence of the crash nor from this forced and grueling apprenticeship with wild nature. He will see all of these bodies crushed by the incredible brutality of the accident, will hear the cries of pain and the deafening blast of the mountain wind in the night which threatens to freeze the still living passengers in place. As in The Impossible, The Snow Circle pushes the graphic representation of the disaster very far, even if it means bordering on the fantastic.

Coming from horror cinema with his first film The orphanage in 2007, the director transformed the experience of this astonishing true story into a horrific tale made up of bodies emerging from piles of snow, skins which blackened and rotted, and eyes blackened by hunger and despair which lost their footing with them. reality. But this encounter between a terrifying reality and genre cinema does not result here, as can often happen, in a voyeuristic or complacent film. There is in Juan Antonio Bayona an obvious respect for the story he tells and his characters, but even more a desire to transcribe their dilemmas with the greatest possible intelligence.

Series Berlin with Pedro Alonso has finally arrived on Netflix! Highly anticipated by fans of The House of Paper, this prequel centered on the character of Berlin should satisfy many Netflix subscribers during the end-of-year holidays. And why not serve as post-New Year audiovisual digestion. Frankly, this series Berlin is very easy to look at. Even if it slightly disappointed our expectations, it managed to entertain us with a well-executed heist story and incessant twists and turns. Some come from nowhere but such is life in Berlin, real name Andrés de Fonollosa, strategic genius with contagious madness.

To portray this unique hero, Netflix naturally gave the keys to Pedro Alonso who already played this role in The House of Paper. His love of money and women is widely highlighted in this new series, as is that of beauty. Always dressed, chic, dressed to the nines, Berlin’s character leaves nothing to chance. And even if he plans to get his hands on 44 million euros in jewelry during his Parisian heist, he knows how to be modest in terms of jewelry, precisely. Clear demonstration with his watch.

In Berlin, Pedro Alonso wears a watch that could not be more classic: a steel case that is not too large, a white 3-hand dial and a leather strap. But it often happens that the classic comes at a high price in watchmaking: a Master Ultra Thin Date from Jaeger-LeCoultre costs 10,400 euros, the Rolex 1908 (in white gold) goes up to 23,050 euros, an Omega De Ville Prestige is worth 3900 euros while the Longines Grande Classique costs 1400 euros. Simplicity therefore does not always rhyme with low price. Fortunately, there are still small watchmaking gems. Like the Berlin watch.

It is most likely because the series is Spanish that Pedro Alonso wears a… Spanish watch on his wrist. This is the Festina 1948 brought up to date in the Extra collection at the end of 2016. This watch originally dates from 1948 and has the great quality of having a timeless design. Its case, 36 mm here, is known to watch enthusiasts for its three distinct parts and the dial with curved glass. The only difference with the 1948 version is the mechanical movement which has been abandoned for quartz. The price defies all competition since if Festina does not sell this 1948 on its site, you can find it on resale sites, between 70 and 149 euros. A real good deal to grab urgently because it could well be that the Berlin watch quickly increases in value, due to notoriety.