Film Screening: Black Bread, Agustí Villaronga (2010, Catalan)

Date
Wed March 8th 2017, 6:30pm
Location
Building 320, Room 105

Black Bread, set in the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the early 1940's, tells the story of a local man accused of murder whose son sets out to find the truth. Eleven-year-old Andreu stumbles upon a crushed wagon in the underbrush at the foot of a high cliff and witnesses the dying moments of the man and boy inside. When police suspect Andreu's father of foul play he goes into hiding and Andreu is sent to live with relatives. There, the frightened boy creates a fantasy life but is forced to confront a world of adult deception, festering hatreds and the war's monstrous consequences.