Black Bread Review [Sfiff]
Black Bread is one of Sfiff's more understated films, despite a few fairly grotesque moments. It's an examination of the effects of politics and war on the Spanish people immediately following the Spanish Civil War. With its slight supernatural themes, it firmly reminds us of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (Sergi Lopez is even cast in a role in Bread very similar to the ruthless authority figure he played in Labyrinth). Black Bread stays much more firmly rooted in reality, however. The film is directed by Agustí Villaronga who adapted it from a very critically acclaimed novel by Emili Teixidor. The film focuses on a ten year old by the name of Andreu who is just old enough to begin understanding the complex world going on around him. And it is very complex.
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Black Bread is one of Sfiff's more understated films, despite a few fairly grotesque moments. It's an examination of the effects of politics and war on the Spanish people immediately following the Spanish Civil War. With its slight supernatural themes, it firmly reminds us of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (Sergi Lopez is even cast in a role in Bread very similar to the ruthless authority figure he played in Labyrinth). Black Bread stays much more firmly rooted in reality, however. The film is directed by Agustí Villaronga who adapted it from a very critically acclaimed novel by Emili Teixidor. The film focuses on a ten year old by the name of Andreu who is just old enough to begin understanding the complex world going on around him. And it is very complex.
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- 4/30/2011
- by Blake Griffin
- We Got This Covered
Francesc Colomer in Agustí Villaronga's Black Bread Álex de la Iglesia Speech: Goyas 2011 Whereas Álex de la Iglesia's A Sad Trumpet Ballad won only two — Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup and Hair — of its fifteen Goya 2011 nominations, Agustí Villaronga's Pa negre / Black Bread won nine of its fourteen nods, among them Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (also Villaronga), and Best Actress (Nora Navas). Based on a novel by Emili Teixidor, the Catalan-spoken family drama is set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Most Promising Actor Francesc Colomer plays an 11-year-old whose family life has been deeply scarred by the war. Black Bread also earned Laia Marull the Best Supporting Actress Goya. Javier Bardem picked up his fifth Goya — fourth in the Best Actor category — this time for his Oscar-nominated performance as a dying con man in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful. [...]...
- 2/14/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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