2010 · crime · drama · revenge
Black Bread
Directed by Agustí Villaronga1h 48m2010
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.
Our read: Black Bread (2010) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded crime · drama · revenge entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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