El Palmar de Troya will sound like a brand of cookies to many. And well it is like that. Recently, various studies have estimated at 66% young people Millenials They have no idea what the Holocaust was or who that Auschwitz is that you are telling me about. And there is no need to go back that far: one of the most visited articles in Postposmo is the one who clarifies that yes, that narrated the Netflix documentary Don't fuck with cats It is a true story. Seen this way, a piece of marathons that are coming for when HBO decides to serialize the Jewish extermination of the Nazis.
In this post-truth context, broken compass and ignorance of what once was/would be vox populi, the premiere of a documentary series about the obvious (and massive) scam of faith [sic] that began at the end of the sixties in the Sevillian village of Palmar de Troya is a win-win manual. Even more so if it comes to us blessed under the umbrella of Movistar + and the seal of quality of 100 Bullets (Mediapro) and 93 meters, producer responsible for, among other documentaries, Narrow for the Sixth and Clandestine at DiscoveryMax.
El Palmar de Troya: a Wild Wild Country to the spanish
Sevillian village, XNUMXs. Four girls claim to have witnessed a miracle. The rest is taken care of by the net curtain, the miserable's thirst for hope and the cunning/malice of a few.
Those to whom the potatoes of Palmar sound like an Andalusian confectionery specialty will do well to resist the urge to interrogate Google. Important dust cloud of surrealism that awaits you in #0 of Movistar +.
Its time has come for the Palmar church, and it has done so in the form of a serialized documentary that is hard to understand and believe that there is no precedent. Better late than never. No, Clementine parishioners do not consecrate hosts with mandarin juice instead of wine. But it is not that they come short of even more bizarre prints.
“It is very difficult to find a single point of view. Nobody had all the pieces of the puzzle until now, it is the first time that all those pieces come together and we tell the story of Palmar»
Israel del Santo, director of The Palmar de Troya in an interview for Espinof
Movistar + premieres on Thursday, February 6, the first of the four episodes of this serialized documentary with an invoice that, for a Spanish product, is still sadly exotic. to it making a murderer, instead of inciting us with the deflagration as soon as it begins, The Palmar de Troya chooses to gradually unravel a cake with an unimaginable flavor; But hey, has this really happened?
Louis Moulins, former bishop of El Palmar de Troya, in a frame from the documentary made by 93 meters.
The titles of each episode of The Palmar de Troya They already throw good clues of the intricacies:
- Blessed you are
- among all women
- Beware of false prophets
- Wolves in sheep's clothing
Spanish non-fiction with important technical and human deployment
If the patient viewer allows himself to be fooled by the agile mixture of testimonies, the unpublished fragments of the newspaper library and the staging of the silent acting recreation (at the right point and quite successful), The Palmar de Troya offers almost instant gratifications.
After three years of production and eight months of neighborly coexistence in the Sevillian village, The Palmar de Troya has a adjusted balance of testimonies that help us understand the mindset of the two fans. Not so much to empathize. The denunciation of the false nature of the Palmarian sect is even less subtle than the one seen in the also recent and much celebrated Netflix documentary the earth is flat. Watch out for the bishops fake.
Frame from the Movistar documentary El Palmar de Troya, which has recreations of what happened in the Sevillian village 50 years ago
The referent of It wild country it becomes mandatory. Although the mythical Oshō (aka The Rolls Royce guru) was deported from the US and has been denied entry into 21 countries, his books are still highly visible today on Fnac and Amazon. Something similar, saving the distances of course, can be said of the Palmarian church, still active and with the beach bar overflowing when mass is played.
To understand how bizarre it is that the bells of the Palmarian basilica continue to ring every day at four o'clock in the afternoon, you have to immerse yourself in the four episodes of The Palm Grove of Troy, the closest thing we've ever had to a Wild Wild Country Spanish.
The Palmar de Troya premieres on Thursday, February 6 in #0 of Movistar +.