Monday, 9 February 2015

No bread, big church

Land Without Bread (1933)

Directed by Luis Bunuel this documentary has a voice over by Alexandre O'Neill in the English version. We explore a harsh, mountainous region of Spain here poverty is rife.

This film shows a stark and desolate way of life and does so through the dispassionate tone of a disinterested narrator. At times I am left wondering how much is real and how much is added for affect but the film does a good job of showing how the people are abandoned by both the state and the Church. Some of the image quality was not the best on the version I watched but that could just have been as I was watching a youtube upload.


4/5

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