Natal em Lisboa 2015

A series of concerts in churches to celebrate christmas.
Free entrance, seats reserved to the capacity of the church.
I went to the concert on Sunday. It was Saint Nicolaus day. A Romanian quartet playing Romanian christmas carols and some chamber music from Bach.

The Good Dinosaur

The latest Pixar movie. It has stunning visual effects with incredible water scenes. I read that it is extremely difficult to animate water.
The story is about a dinosaur that gets lost and tries to find his way home. He has a companion: a neandertal that behaves as a dog. It makes you wonder if dinosaurs were not extinct how would the human species evolve? Maybe we would be dinosaurs' dogs. It has a great message: everyone leaves a mark in the world, we just have to figure out what ours is...

Our brand is crisis

A movie with Sandra Bullock that tells how politicians win elections even when they are last in the voting poles.
The strategy, the dirt, the twisting facts, the insinuations, all the schemes that are used.
Interesting movie. Never believe in politicians' promises!

Suffragettes

This is a movie about the Suffragette movement in England. It is inspired by true events. A woman had to become a martyr so that women could have a vote. Several women had to struggle for this right to become universal.
There are still countries where women cannot vote.
New Zealand was the first country to let women vote. This was back in 1893. In Portugal it was in 1931, but it had a lot of restrictions: only single women, older than 31 years old or emancipated., if married they needed consent from their husbands. Only in 1968 the right for women to vote was universal.
It's a movie that is worth watching.