November's documentary points at the Western consumerist decadence

The change of month is right around the corner, meaning that DocsBarcelona is introducing a new film to share in different spaces across the city. In this case, the organisation has chosen to programme a tape about the human soul and the community life that ends up becoming, as the plot describes, an “x-ray of the consumers' decadence in the Western world” throughout the whole of November. The name of the documentary is Lobster Soup, and it's a Spanish, Icelandic and Lithuanian production directed by Pepe Andreu Ibarra and Rafa Molés Vilar.

It's rare to see a splash of comedy in DocsBarcelona's documentaries of the month but this time, Lobster Soup manages to make viewers smile with a relatively light-hearted story. It is set in a grey Icelandic town that attracts hundreds of tourists thanks to the excellent lobster soup they serve at their most emblematic café, which is the heart of the place. The success reaches so far that it attracts the attention of ambitious investors: they want to buy the premises, expand it and hang a whale skeleton on the wall.

In Barcelona, Lobster Soup will be available on November 4 and 9 at Cines Girona, on November 10 at the Biblioteca Esquerra de l'Eixample - Agustí Centelles, on November 15 at the Teatre de Sarrià, on November 16 at Casa Elizade, on November 18 at the Ateneu Fort Pienc and on November 25 at the Auditori de Sant Martí. At the last venue as well as at the Biblioteca Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta, they will offer the documentary online.

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