The lies of adults raise little monsters.
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
- 6.7
- 2010
- Released
- 1h 48m
Francesc Colomer
Andreu
Marina Comas
Núria
Nora Navas
Florència
Roger Casamajor
Farriol
Lluïsa Castell
Ció
Mercé Arànega
Sra. Manubens
Marina Gatell
EnriquetaElisa Crehuet
ÀviaLázaro Mur
TísicJordi Pla
Quirze
Laia Marull
Pauleta
Sergi López
Alcalde
Eduard Fernández
MestreAndrea Caro
Roviretes
Released
ca
$6,000,000.00
$3,770,657.00
- #homophobia
- #cave
- #spanish civil war (1936-39)
- #catalonia, spain
- #revenge
- #rural area
- #farmer
- #post war
- #1940s
- #caged bird
- #gay theme
Reviews
Agustí Villaronga's "Pa Negre" (Black Bread) belongs to a vital tradition of Spanish cinema that uses a child's perspective to reveal how fascism poisons communities from within. Like Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" and especially Víctor Erice's "El Sur" (1983), this film understands that childhood under fascism means the premature death of innocence. Young Andreu doesn't just grow up; he's
A different story in the after times of the Spanish Civil War. Cleverly, it mixes a thriller with the destruction of the naïve childhood of the main character. Who is good and who is bad, who is true and who lies is unclear as the events that lead to the current situation. A must to see in nowadays Spanish film making.