Monday 14 February 2011

You've heard all about the Bafta Awards, now here are the Goyas

SPAIN (Agencies/Photo: AFP) Last night were the Bafta Awards in the UK, and also their equivalent in Spain, the Goyas. Over here it was the night for a film shot in Catalan but populated principally by Basques. Pa negre took nine of the 14 prizes it was nominated for: Best Film, Best Director (Agustí Villaronga, photo), Best Actress (Nora Navas) and Supporting Actress (Laia Marull), Best New Actress (Marina Comas) and Actor (Francesc Colomer), Best Artistic Direction, Original Screenplay and Photography. También la lluvia, directed by Iciar Bollain, took three Goyas (Best Supporting Actor, Music and Production Direction), as did Buried (Sound, Screenplay and Production). Javier Bardem, whose film Biutiful, was at the top of the odds list but only won one Goya: Best Actor, for his interpretation.>
Pa negre (Pan Negro, or Black Bread) is set in the darkest post-Civil War days of rural Catalonia. Andreu, a boy on the losing side, one day finds the bodies of a man and his son, deep in the forest. The authorities -the winners- try to lay the blame for the deaths on Andreu's father. But in an effort to help his father, the boy tries to find who the real killers were. The journey awakens a moral conscience in Andreu, who is confronted by a world of adults who feed on lies. (Translated from filmaffinity.com)

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