General Discussion - El Cor De La Cuitat

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Marc in a break of the shooting of Gernika (pic taken by a extra). He looks so different!

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A clip about the opening of Cyrano de Bergerac, that has got very good reviews. I'm going to see it next Saturday.

www.tv3.cat/videos/4101733/Arquillue-es-posa-el-nas-de-Cyrano

A video of a TV3 cultural program, "No t'ho perdis" (don't miss it). The first 5 minutes are about a rehearse of Cyrano open to the media (we can see Bernat/Christian and Pere Arquillué/Cyrano in a scene we have already seen some pics). I like specially how Bernat smiles when the director says the reason of that scene is audience to watch him and think he's handsome (Cyrano thinks he's dumb but beautiful; just the oposite of him).

www.tv3.cat/nothoperdis/

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Amazing Cyrano! I enjoyed it very much! Bernat as Christian gives the comic touch of so great drama (great scene of Roxana's balcony!). And, as his character, he's handsome and has a moustache (perhaps to seem serious and like his real age). The perfomances end July 22th, but maybe there will be another ones later, perhaps in Fall.

Marc continues the shooting of Gernika. There are some clips of a scene just after the bombing, when two of the main characters leave a house and see the town destroyed (one of them is Marc, but I haven't see him in these clips, or he's very changed!). They has been shotted in a deserted village, Castil de Carrias.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29PG_NjHuA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDraquI-7dI&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Also, Marc takes part in the broadcast of the charity concert against AIDS that will happen next Friday. This is a clip about it (and his choice of a song, l'Empordà). He says he likes it because it talks about a land he likes very much, l' Empordà in Catalonia (the land of the painter Salvador Dali; the song talks about the strong wind that makes people to get mad). This is Marc's clip:

www.ara.cat/el_radar/Les_nostres_cancons_contra_la_sida-Marc_Clotet_3_709159082.html

And this is a clip of the song he has chosen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ZCkYQUSCA

But the song chosen by the public to end the concert is another one, Boig per tu (crazy about you), a beautiful love song and a real sentimental hymn for Catalan people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKodA_EpzI

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Gernika is in its two last weeks of shooting, as it's said in this newspaper article, with an interview to the director and Marc. The movie happens in three days, April 26th 1937, the day Gernika was destroyed, and the days before and after. Marc says the movie shows how the bombing made people to change.

What they're shooting now is the day D before the bombing, that was specially hideous because it was monday, market's day in the town. The movie shows peasants of the nearby farms selling their animals (cows, hens, etc) and vegetables. Of course, nazi aircraft knew it! As Gernika was completly destroyed, the new town isn't useful for shooting what happened 75 years ago. So, the market scenes (just before the bombing) are been shotted in other basque little town, Oiartzun.


www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.com/2012/06/08/ocio-y-cultura/comunicacion/oiartzun-viaja-al-26-de-abril-de-1937

A pic of Marc with two little girls, perhaps extras in the movie. Marc looks so strange with today clothes and old hair cut!



Thanks, Erika!

The other important thing Marc has been doing is the charity concert of yesterday against AIDS. This is a report video. Marc and his wife Ana were among the people (mostly, all the singers in the concert) that sang the last song, Boig per tu. They can be seen in m. 4.00 to 4.10, at the left side, near the piano, behind the row of singers. And the last image is for Dr. Clotet, that was in the midle of this row. Also, it can be seen the ex-FC Barcelona trainer Pep Guardiola, reciting the verses of a song.

www.ara.cat/noticies/Les_nostres_cancons_contra_la_sida-Els_amics_de_les_arts-Peret-Lluis_Llach-Pep_Guardiola-Palau_Sant_Jordi_3_715758419.html

The couple with Marc's sister Aina




Listening to the concert













Two images from twitter. The first one, from Ana's one:

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Meanwhile, Bernat continues with "Cyrano de Bergerac". There are another two clips about this play. The first one, from Escenaris, is an interview with its director, Oriol Broggi, during one of the rehearses with audience, before its opening. Bernat's back can be seen from m. 4.08 rehearsing the fight with swords, behind the director. And at the end, there is a Christian- Cyrano scene.

escenaris.minisites.xtvl.tv/programes/fitxa/espectacles/22497?page=1

This one is an interview with the actor Pere Arquillué, who plays Cyrano, in a TV3 program, Divendres. It shows several scenes of the play as background. Among them, the balcony scene with Bernat.

www.tv3.cat/videos/4116710/Pere-Arquillue-es-Cyrano-de-Bergerac

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Two more clips about "Cyrano de Bergerac", with Bernat talking about the play. And he does it after the director and the first actor, Pere Arquillué:

vimeo.com/43599699

In this one, he talks twice: the first time, he says the play talks about love, friendship, hate, has good and bad people, etc. It has all the things for being liked, and in fact it's succesful. The second time, he talks about Roxane, the lady who is in love with his character Christian because he's handsome, but Cyrano's letters makes her to discover a deeper feeling. She falls in love with what she thinks Christian's soul (really, Cyrano's). (And for Christian, it's a horrible discovering, she doesn't love him; and he does himself be killed in the war, to let Cyrano and Roxane to fullfil their love).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlVBD_yyxq0

Here, the interviews are made in the garden (the cloister) of the venue. Bernat talks also twice. The first time, about his character. He says Christian is the opposite to Cyrano, both are in love with the same lady, Roxane, but Cyrano doesn't dare to tell his love to her because his nose. So, he takes advantage of Christian's shyness to send letters to Roxanne expressing his love.

The second time, he says a very interesting thing: he's playing theater for doing plays like this one. (and I think perhaps is the best performance he has ever token part in). It's being compared with another very succesful Catalan performance of this play 26 years ago, "the same year I was born", Bernat said. He also says that people of his age coulnt watch that old performance, so this play is good for young people to do it. (The main actor watched the old play when he was only 17 and from that time he only waited to have the age to play Cyrano).

The play is very succesfull, the tickets are sold out until July 7, and only a few of them are left until July 15; people who want to watch it have to buy the tickets right now for the last week, until its ending at July 22th.

About Can Vermut, his bar in Menorca, I have found a page with a map of Mahon and its port with its bars, because a contest of "tapas", very tipical in Spanish bars.

www.menorca.es/document.php?user=Menorca&document_id=636&title=m-de-tapes&lang_id=1

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Marc appears in the June issue of Shangay Style, a gay fashion review published in Spain. The report was made before the shooting of Gernika. He talks about the TV series that made him famous, specially FoQ. About the Civil War movies (he said laughing that mybe his face is good for that time). About La Estrella, that opens this year (still no date), his character in this movie explains the origin of the crisis Spain has right now: his character Salva worked in a Real State agency and wnted to be rich to leave the bad neighborhood where he lives. A Real State agency that did the bad things we're now paying for.

Marc's last project is a TV series "very different from FoQ" next fall.

issuu.com/shangay/docs/s16

Thanks, Erika!

They also remember that Marc is son of Dr. Clotet, and he was seen in the party organized by the Shangay review past March to give his father the award for his work in the fight against the AIDS.

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Jun 22, 2012 21:13:22 GMT -5 carmelabcn said:

Marc's last project is a TV series "very different from FoQ" next fall.

issuu.com/shangay/docs/s16

I think I have misunderstood the article. It's said that "after the summer, he (Marc) will come back to the TV screams in a project that is very different from FoQ". Better red, I think they talk about Gernika, whose opening will be in September, in the San Sebastian Film Festival, and it will be aired in October in ETB, the Basque TV, its main producer. And after, in the other TV channels that coproduced the movie.

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The tickets for the perfomances of Cyrano in Barcelona are completely sold-out. But there will be another ones after the summer in the towns around Catalonia (and for exemple, the tickets for a perfomance in next Jaunary 2013 can be already bought).

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A great review of Cyrano, in the most important Spanish newspaper, El País. Bernat is compared with the young Alain Delon in Visconti's "Il Gatopardo". The main actor, Pere Arquillué, is compared with Russell Crowe, and also, in the last scene (Cyrano's death), with John Wayne in his scene with Maureen O'Hara in the Ford's film.

The play will be performed in Spanish in Madrid from November 30th to Jaunary 6th (all the Christmas days).

cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/26/actualidad/1340709750_409027.html

Marc has got an award as the best new actor for "La Voz Dormida", given by the readers of Cartelera Turia, a cinema review of Valencia, a city by the Mediterranean Sea. It's near the town where I live, so I'm going to the Gala next Saturday, where the awards will be given.

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A clip with the last days of shooting of Gernika. Marc seems to be the gentleman who is smoking at a lady's side near sveral peasants at m. 0'55 to 1¡00, ((from the web page of one of the main actresses, Sara Casanovas, I think is the lady at his side). It's the morning of the bombing day, when there was a peasant's market at the town:

zonasaracasasnovas.blogspot.com.es/2012_07_01_archive.html

This series has its premiere in September at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Perhaps another movie by Marc will have also its premiere at the same festival, La Estrella. I'm lucky and talked with Marc in the Gala past July 7th. He said producers are trying to do it (the movie is still in post-production, if they are in time to take part in the Festival, La Estrella could be watched in it.).

I put also the link with a report of a Spanish faxhion review with celebrities (in Spain) that show interesting places in London. marc is one of them

www.woman.es/planes/escapadas-y-viajes/londres-by-celebrities/(imagen)/114499#mainContent

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Cyrano de Bergerac has ended its succesful perfomances in Barcelona, but after summer they're going to do the rehearses in Spanish for the opening of the play in Madrid next November 30 to Jaunary 6. After these perfomances, they will play Cyrano around Catalonia, and then the play turns to the gothic venue of the Librery of Catalonia, from March 5th to April 7th. An article of a newspaper (in Spanish) about it:

www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/cyrano-arquillue-llegara-madrid-2128641

And the link with the web page of the company, La Perla 29:

www.laperla29.com/eng/agenda.php?id=128


After his wife Ana's twitter, Marc is now in hollidays at Paris. We have a recent image of an interview in Catalan. He says times are now difficult for people, and also actors. maybe he will do a series he has done a casting, and maybe he will play theater in a play he has translatd with his wife. But really, he was gardening and renovating their home. He thinks he must to reinvent himself.

www.ara.cat/estiu2012/Marc-Clotet-doncs-reinventat-sigui_0_740326160.html


I haven't got a larger image, but it's in the article I have put the link:



He's waiting the opening of his two last works, Gernika, and La Estrella. Gernia's opening is in the San Sebastian Film Festival, next September . And maybe, La Estrella too, if they're lucky and are in time. August first we will know if La Estrella goes to San Sebastian.

This is the link with the presentation of Gernika (Marc isn't in it). An article of a newspaper (in Spanish):

dvocion.diariovasco.com/television/gernika-bombas-zinemaldia-201207241032.php

And the video with the news, by the Basque TV EITB (the main producer):

www.eitb.com/es/television/detalle/929018/la-tv-movie-gernika-bombas-se-estrenara-zinemaldia/

There are images of the miniseries (Marc is seen in a scene, m. 0:26). They say it has two parts of 75 minuts. The first one talks about the historical events of the bombing (it's a non fiction part). The second one is about how common people suffered the bombing, and it's the fiction part started by Marc.

[dalia]

just want to let you know i appreciate all the info and photos <3

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Marc and Bernat are looking so terrific. Glad their careers are going so well. Carmela, thank you again for all your hard work keeping us updated. My roommate is on a cruise that originates in Barcelona and I told him to look up Bernat and say hi. lol.
On a personal note I made a huge change in my life. I packed up and left my home in Iowa and moved to Las Vegas! I absolutely love it here. Found a job almost at once and love my new roommate.

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DALIA, BERNATFAN, you're wellcome! I know you and several other people are interested on Bernat and Marc. For that reason, i update the information about them. There are several fan web pages, for exemple the Erika's japanese blog, that has a very good information that sometimes we the Spanish fans don't find. They read this threat and the Eva's Catalan forum. This way, all of us know what Bernat and Marc are doing, and have pics of them.

For exemple, the lst thing Erika has hanged in her blog is a link with the Russian MaxIago fan Facebook page, with their drawing about them and the episodes with subs in Russian.

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=315508768506759&set=a.307194489338187.75257.307131386011164&type=3&theater

Luckily, here in Spain we can talk with them, as I do. They don't use often the new technologies (FB or twitter). Bernat has twitter but doesn't use it. Marc doesn't have FB nor twitter, but we know his private life through his wife Ana, who tweets often (we can know things as what movie they have seen in the last days -they're now in Spain-, or that her little dog Elvis has had a haircut).

Bernatfan, I hope you go0d luck in your new life in Las Vegas! Pity your roommate not to have gone to Barcelona a month before, he would have seen Bernat as Christian de Neuvillette lol

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A Spanish gossip magzine has published several pics of Marc and Ana in their hollidays at the coast in the north of Catalonia, in a day of swinning under the water. These are two of them:






Both love sports, and these pics are some kind of "stolen" (they're surprised, but afterwards, they allow to be published). So they're at their natural beauty.Both are hot, but hotness neads to be cultivated. Sport is useful for that purpose. This is the link with all the pics of that report.

www.diezminutos.es/famosos-corazon/famosos-espanoles/ana-de-armas-y-marc-clotet-en-la-costa-brava


The report says Ana has finished the shooting of "Hands of stone", with Robert de Niro and Andy Garcia. And Marc is still waiting the end of the postproduction of "La estrella". There aren't any news about this movie going to the San Sebastian Film Festival. Its web hasn't published till all the movies that are going to take part in all its sections, but I think that in this case, no news are bad news. It would be a great surprise for me if La Estrella goes to San Sebastian. The web of the movie, nor the festival one, talk about it.

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Some news about Marc and Bernat:

Bernat has a new play that opens next November 2d at Temporada Alta, the Fall Catalan Theater Festival in Girona, a town near Barcelona. "Heroines and Heroes of W. Shakespeare", that seems to be written and directed by the own actors and actress, and estresses the good diction that is like music. This is a link with the information (and a pic) in English:

www.temporada-alta.net/en/programme/54-heroines-i-herois-de-william-shakespeare.html



Marc has an interview (in Spanish) about economics and the very serious crisis we have now in Spain (he studied MBA and worked in advertising campaings, before acting as Iago).As many people (like myself), he wants a great change in the Spanish economics. This is the link, with a pic:

www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/escenarios/marc-clotet-actor-los-villanos-siguen-activos-y-nunca-pediran-perdon-_786521.html

We have also the trailer of a short, "Cicatrices" (scares). Marc takes part in it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BN6ukzRxY

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Many thngs have happened about Marc (less about Bernat) from my last message. These are their updates:

BERNAT

Next Friday, it's the opening of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in Madrid (Teatro Valle Inclán), in Spanish, until Jaunary 6th 2013. And aftewards, this play has perfomances around Catalonia, in Catalan, until April (and comes back to Barcelona, Library of Ctalonia, from March 5th to April 7th).

He has also a new play, "Stockmann", a version of "An enemy of the people", by Ibsen, where he plays this main character. This is a perfomance of Les Antonietes company, with the same director and actors than "El Mal de la Juventut" and "Molt soroll per res", and played in the same theater, Sala Muntaner in Barcelona, from May 5th to June 16th.

it's a very critical and interesting play. Many plays are now being performed in Spain about politics, about economy, about power relationships, about corruption. For example, the past weekend I have watched in Barcelona "Macbeth", "Oleanna" and a new Spanish play "Poder absoluto", inspired in the case of Kurt Walheim, ex General Secretary of the UN and president of Austria. Of course, because our political and economical crisis. This is the link with the wikipedia about Ibsen's play.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People

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MARC

There are more news about Marc. It has been easier to follow him because his wife has twitter, and now he also has it.

twitter.com/Marc_Clotet

His last tweets are about past November 14th general strike happened in Spain. He was in the demostrations, with many other artists. There are many reasons to do it. Past September, VAT taxes rised up strongly. Movie and play theaters go up from 8 to 21%. From them, 33% people left them. As Marc says in a twit, "Without culture, there is a dictatorship". A pic of him with another actors in Madrid near the demonstration (one of them is Nausícaa Bonnín, who played Sandra in El Cor, and "Barcelona, ciutat neutral" with Bernat.




In another message, he retwits a beautiful clip about the "Invisible parents", the LGTB families:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBy_q4i40s&feature=youtu.be

Luckyly, the Constitutional Court in Spain declared constitutional the law about same sex marriage (and also, their adoption of children) in November 6th.

Another civic-minded thing he has done is about today, the Day against Gender Violence. With another famous actors in Spain, he dressed and wore make-up as a blondie woman, to express his agree with this goal, for the Marie Claire review (it appears at the December issue). This is his pic:




But the most important thing that happened to him is being the main male character in an afternoon dayly series (as El Cor), "Amar es para siempre" (Love is forever). They started the shooting this month, and it can be seen in Jaunary in A3 (the same channel than FoQ). This series is the same than "Amar en tiempos revueltos" aired in TVE. I have talked here about it because it talks about the common life during Franco's dictatorship, and several seasons ago, there was a lesbian story (Ana and Teresa). Teresa was performed by Carlota Olcina, Max's sister the pianist Nuria in El Cor. There is a threat in this board about them in "Lesbians of Daytime"_

gaydaytime.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tlodt&action=display&thread=1278

TVE is a public channel and has the economical problems of all the public sector. Spain must to cut the public debt, so the producer of the series, Diagonal TV, decided to air it at A3, with the same regular characters but in different sets and name. As El Cor, it has characters and stories of a season, and the regular characters, people in a bar, that connect the stories.

Marc plays Mauro, the mail male character of this season. That happens in 1960, when Spain has a dictatorship, but also is being opening al the world. Many people of the Spanish working class found jobs in Germany, and turists began to come to enjoy the Spanish sun and beaches. Economical conditions improve in Spain.

As most of the characters played by Marc, Mauro is an insensate but darling young man, that has a hate-love relationship with Inés, a sensible and responsible girl. Mauro (26) was expelled from College because he had a sexual relationship with the wife of its dean. In the information of the series web page, I haven't found what is Mauro's job, it seems to be a bon viveur. He meets Inés because he went to the law firm where she works (she's lawyer) because he has a problem with the law. Maybe, his affair with the dean's wife, because in that time, adultery was a crime in Spain.

This is a pic of Mauro and Ines, the main characters of this season.



The series web page about Mauro:

www.antena3.com/series/amar/personajes/mauro-alegre-alocado-sentira-atraido-ines_2012111300206.html

in several twits he expresses how much he must to lean, to do this character. One of them, adressed to his co-star Barbara Goenaga (Inés), he says he has 80 lines (800 words) in episode 5. He says her not to count her lines, much more than his ones.

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More things about Marc:

The two epsodes of "Gernika bajo las bombas" can be seen in the ETB web (the basque public TV):

Part one:
www.eitb.tv/es/#/video/1873149563001

Pat two:
www.eitb.tv/es/#/video/1886299639001

(wait some seconds until the upload of the film)

Marc plays a bad character. He's a upper class young man whose parents have fleed from the Spanish Civil War to France. He feels trapped in a war he doesn't want to take part in it, and in fact he feigns to be wounded putting himself a fake plaster in his arm, to avoid to be recruited.

He wants to do the same thing than his parents, going to France. But he hasn't money because their parents disinherited him because his behavior (bad life, women etc). He's living in Bilbao, and has a girlfriend in the town of Gernika. But he isn't faithful to her! He takes advantage of her love (he doesn't love her at all) to use her to go to France. He proposed her to steal the jewels of her family to buy the ticket for the ship to France. And went to Gernika the day the town was bombed.

This girl (whose family has a foodstuff store, and his father is member of the Nationalist Basque Party) is loved for "El chato", a woking class young man who is communist and has as a friend the son of a very catholic lady. Gernika, at this moment, is under the control of the legal republican government. This lady and another people very conservative catholic was aganist this republican government. She makes his son to do mapes of the town that the Franco forces (the nazi aircraft that bombed Gernika, among them) uses to destroy the town. He doesn`t ask why they wanted the maps. When he realizes all the destruction that happened, he kills himself.

Angel (the character played by Marc) takes the jewels and puts them inside the doll of the girl's niece. And this doll becames his main goal. At the end, the girl discovers he only is interested on her for these jewels, but.... something happens, that redeems himself.

With this fictional stories, there are the real characters of the bombing, among them the English journalist that was the witness of the horror, and that the horror was made by the nazi aircraft that backed the rebel band.

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Another thing Marc has made for TV is an episode of Catalan TV program "Cims" (tops of mountains), about famous people that climbs a Catalan mountain. Marc doesn't climb mountains, but he's a sportsman and he enjoyed to climb a mountain of 3.000 m. The episode shows him climbing with people who did it a kind of interview (and shows how he knows about animals, for exemple).

www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/cims/cims-marc-clotet-puja/1572967/

He's the oposite of his characters!

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Marc and Bernat have important things this week.

Bernat has today the opening of Cyrano de Bergerac in Madrid, but the theater web page about this play says it isn't posible because the main actor, Pere Arquillué (Cyrano) is injured. This main actor has won the "Butaca" award to the best actor of this year for this play. The Butaca award is a price of theater given by the audience of Barcelona.

A clip with the rehearses of the play, in Spanish.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwLBVYjHKE8

The CDN web page about this play.

cdn.mcu.es/espectaculo/cyrano-de-bergerac/


Marc is shotting his new series, "Amar es para siempre", and also, as every year, he takes part in events for fighting against AIDS.

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BERNAT'S NEXT PLAY

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Next Monday, Jaunary 14th, the new Marc's series starts.




The first minutes of the new series:

www.antena3.com/series/amar/avances/asi-comienza-amar-siempre_2013011000166.html

And some images of the firsts episodes:

www.antena3.com/videos-online/series/amar/primeras-imagenes-amar-siempre_2013010700011.html

www.antena3.com/videos-online/series/amar/primeras-imagenes-amar-siempre_2012123100045.html

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The opening credits of "Amar es para siempre", starting with the main couple Barbara Goenaga and Marc Clotet.

www.antena3.com/videos-online/zona3/cabecera-amar_2013011100018.html

report of a review, Fotogramas. Marc says he has been inspired by Leonardo di Caprio in "Catch me if you can" (but one of the pictures remembers me to James Dean!).

teleprograma.fotogramas.es/telenovela/2013/enero/marc_clotet_barbara_goenaga_mauro_ines_amar_es_para_siempre