Film Screening of Pa Negre/ Black Bread (2010) followed by Q&A
When:
—
Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Dir. Agustà Villaronga. Spain, 2010, 108 mins. In Catalan and Spanish with English subtitles.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn_gj5aly6c
Black Bread (Pa negre) by Emili Teixidor (1933-2012) is one of the major novels of contemporary Spain which brings to life a rural world of mythical force as the Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the Guardia Civil.
The film Black Bread is a 2010 Catalan-language drama written and directed by Agustà Villaronga, based on the homonymous novel by Teixidor with elements of two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassà d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.
The film won 13 Gaudà Awards, 9 Goya Awards, including best film, best director and best adapted screenplay. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, being the first Catalan-language film to do so.
After the screening, Paul Preston, Professor of Spanish History at LSE, and translator of Pa Negre Peter Bush will discuss the book, the film and their historical background, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Admission free, RSVP: bit.ly/panegre
A collaboration between the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, CILAVS, Instituto Cervantes, Institut Ramon Llull and Catalan Observatory-LSE