Their compatriots nickname them “the Javis”. Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo form “one of the most influential Spanish audiovisual tandems of recent decades”, judge it SER Chain. With The Messiah (“The Messiah”), a series in seven episodes available on the websiteuntil since mid-November, the pair has confronted each other “the biggest challenge of his career”, assures the radio station on its website.
A challenge won hands down on their side of the Pyrenees, where this “dramatic grenade”, that the viewers “were not prepared to receive”, received praise from the newspaper The Vanguard when it goes online, in October 2023, on the Movistar Plus + platform. The rest of the press was in tune. At the time, everyday The Country declared himself captivated by this “capital work”, which shakes like “the most disturbing films of [Michael] Haneke”.
Paranormal and holy water
The Messiah addresses “the perversion of faith, toxic motherhood, and the ability of adults to overcome childhood trauma,” summary The Vanguard. It is “the story of a brother and sister who survive together and separately the weight of dogma, faith, and family”, complete the TO BE.
The series begins alongside Enric (Roger Casamajor), assistant operator on a shoot in the Montserrat mountain, in Catalonia. “A spiritual place, where voices are said to be heard and paranormal phenomena to occur,” specifies the TO BE. One evening, at a bar counter, Enric is petrified in front of the television, which is broadcasting a kitsch video clip of a Catholic pop song.
The group is called Stella Maris. It reminds the Spanish of another group, Flos Mariae, which existed and went viral in the early 2010s. Flos Mariae was played by sisters from a very Catholic family, dressed in dresses “brightly colored”, who had “chose music to spread the word of God”, as a result of “easy rhymes” and of “repetitive dances”, “all sprinkled with holy water”, trace the site The Confidential.
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