Moonlight

A movie about a black gay boy named Chiron that is beaten up and bullied in school. His mother is a drug addict and he finds a friend in a drug dealer.
We accompany his rough life from boyhood to manhood.
It is a heavy movie.

Almada

An exhibition about the painter, actor and writer Almada Negreiros is at Gulbenkian until June 2017.
It has a lot of his works and even some scripts for movies.
Almada Negreiros was born in 1893 and died in 1970. He was a futurist and a modernist. With Fernando Pessoa he founded the magazine Orpheu. He has a lot of works scattered throughout Lisbon.
 

Frozen

The story of two sisters, Elsa and Anna. They were best friends when they were growing, but they grew apart when Elsa accidentaly hurts her sister with her powers. She can freeze everything in seconds.
After becoming the queen, people find out she has powers and she runs away, leaving the kingdom in a permanent Winter.
Anna goes to find her with a deer, a boy and a snowman.
Is the kingdom condemn to Winter?
A nice movie about the power of friendship and love.

January: Origin of species, by Charles Darwin

In January, I read the Origin of species, by Charles Darwin. It explains Darwin's theory that species evolved from other species through natural selection and that the stronger thrives.
Throughout the book, he tries to refute the critics with examples from the natural world.
It should be read by everyone with an interest in this subject and wanting to know more about how Darwin constructed his theory.

Hidden Figures

I really enjoyed this movie about three afro-american women working at NASA in the 60s.
Katherine, Dorothy and Mary were brilliant mathematicians that because of their skin colour were discriminated. But they proved their talent and left a vital contribution to the Space Program by calculating the trajectory of John Glenn's pod thus enabling the US to win the space race against Russia.

La La Land

I'm not very fond of musicals, but I enjoyed this one especially because it does not have a lot of singing. It is about a woman that is trying her luck in Hollywood and a man that loves jazz and that doesn't want it to be forgotten. It is set in our time, but sometimes it seems to be in the past. It leaves you with a nostalgia, thinking of how things could have been.
I liked the music and how it triggered memories.