Black Bread

Black Bread Catalan Pa negre , IPApa n is a 2010 Catalanlanguage Spanish drama film written and directed by Agust Villaronga. The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him, Retrat dun assass docells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.

In the harsh postwar years Catalan countryside, Dions, a bird dealer, is killed with his son by a man in a hooded cape. Andreu, an 11yearold boy, discovers the bodies. The falangist mayor of the town blames Farriol, Andreus father. Farriol, who was Dionss business partner dealing with birds, is an easy target for incrimination due to his suspicious background as a supporter of the Second Spanish Republic. Years before, the mayor and Farriol were rivals vying for the love of Florncia, Andreus mother, cementing the major resentment against both of them. Fearing for his life, Farriol decides to flee and cross the border into France. Florncia has to work in a factory in Vic so Andreu is sent to live with his paternal relatives in a house full of women and children. via, Andreus old grandmother and Ci, a widower aunt who has a son a few years older than Andreu, work looking after the country home of the richest family of the region, the Manuben. There is also a younger aunt, Enriqueta, who is being pressured into marrying an older neighbor she does not love. The grim household is completed by Andreus orphan cousin Nria, a maimed but beautiful girl around his age, who lost a hand while playing with a grenade.Soon Andreu begins to unearth his familys dark secrets. His aunt, Enriqueta, is the talk of the village because she is carrying on a secret affair with a civil guard. The precocious and lively Nria is engaging in sexual games with her alcoholic school teacher. Andreu befriends an older boy who he first spots bathing naked in a river in the forest. The boy is a tuberculosis patient in a nearby monastery, who imagines he has angels wings. Andreu helps him by setting aside some food for him. Farriol, as Andreu accidentally discovers, has not really left for France but is hiding in the farmhouse attic. ........

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