Just One More Episode - La Mort de Guillem

Ollie Little and Sybilla Hamilton

Hello, and welcome back to your next edition of Just One More Episode, with me, Sybilla Hamilton, and Ollie Little.  Yes, we are fully aware that our tardiness has extended to roughly week 12, but if we are still catching up on last term’s work, then it is still term. And that’s not to say that we haven’t found time to ease our struggles with some light (or in this case somewhat heavy) viewing. 

La Mort de Guillem is the crux of this week’s episode, and to share her thoughts we welcome the Cambridge Language Collective’s own co-editor Hannah Sherry. Directed by Carlos Marqués-Marcet and released in 2020, La Mort de Guillem is a historical drama that relives the fallout of the tragic assassination of Valencian anti-fascist Guillem Agulló on April 11th 1993, aged just 18.  In this episode we discuss not only the pathos of such a harrowing sequence of events, but the reaction that followed the assassination in the form of anti-fascist organisation La Lluita Continua, and the political scope of La Mort de Guillem particularly in the context of the present day.  The film is available for free on TV3.cat here, while you can listen to its main theme, ‘No s’apaguen les estreles’ by Valencian singer Xavi Sarrià on YouTube.

Find out more on the briefly mentioned Pablo Hasél case in a recent article by Natacha Maurin and further detail on the Catalan situation from our News Editor Will Kirby in English and Catalan.

Tune in next time as we once again descend into darkness, covering a fascinating series of copycat murders investigated by the son of eponymous serial killer La Mante.  Ollie and I realise that we have a tendency to choose the most twisted shows we possibly can - we blame Lent term for this.