WITH A PRESENTATION BY GUEST SCHOLAR LINDA C. EHRLICH The Spanish selection for the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film, BLACK BREAD is set in the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the early 1940s where a local man is accused of murder and his son sets out to find the truth. Reminiscent of PAN'S LABYRINTH […]
Argentina’s national treasure, Ricardo Darín uses his brilliant comic timing in CHINESE TAKE-AWAY to create an instant classic and Argentina’s biggest box office success of 2011. Darín plays Roberto, a gruff, anti-social loner who lords over his tiny hardware shop in Buenos Aires with a meticulous sense of control and routine, barely allowing for the […]
Argentina’s national treasure, Ricardo Darín uses his brilliant comic timing in CHINESE TAKE-AWAY to create an instant classic and Argentina’s biggest box office success of 2011. Darín plays Roberto, a gruff, anti-social loner who lords over his tiny hardware shop in Buenos Aires with a meticulous sense of control and routine, barely allowing for the […]
Antonio Méndez Esparza’s directorial debut radiantly captures the complex homecoming of a loving father. In an unexpected take on the traditional immigrant story, Pedro returns home to his small mountain village in Mexico after years of woking in New York. He finds his daughters older and more distant than he imagined; his wife still has […]