Villaronga's cinema is gorgeously cinematic, often historical, high in strikingly managed melodramatic content, sexually (often homoerotically) charged, frequently tinged by the fantastical, very interested in children's perceptions of adult corruption. Introducing his San Francisco Bay Guardian profile of Agustí Villaronga, Dennis Harvey finds him "a fascinating Spanish director whose new film, Black Bread, is the latest in a career of superbly crafted films almost-commercial enough to gain US release. The newer film is darker and more austere than its predecessor because the boy has no fantasy universe to flee to when the real world becomes too cruel."īlack Bread -which screened at last year's PSIFF-returns for a one-off encore screening, garlanded since then with awards for Best Actress ( Marina Comas ) at the 2010 San Sebastian Film Festival, Best Spanish Film at the 2011 Turia Awards, Audience Award for Best Spanish Film at the 2011 Sant Jordi Awards, nine Goyas (including Best Picture and Best Director), 13 Gaudi Awards (also including Best Picture and Best Director) and has been tapped as Spain's official candidate for the foreign language category at the 84th Academy Awards®. shares Fascist villain Sergi López with Guillermo Del Toro's more surreal Pan's Labyrinth, as well as a child protagonist facing evil Franco nationalists in a post-Civil War Catalan forest.
As Frako Loden synopsized in her Evening Class capsule for the 2011 San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF), " Black Bread. When his own father is accused of the crime, he sets out to exonerate him, but the facts he uncovers in this twisted gothic underworld are far from comforting. Agustí Villaronga, Spain, 2010, 108 min) -In the dark days following the Spanish Civil War, a young boy witnesses a brutal murder by mysterious hooded figures.
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