From surrealist director Luis Buñuel (Un Chien Andalou, Belle De Jour) comes this serious and extraordinary documentary. In a northern region of Spain called Las Hurdes, not far from Salamanca, are villages in a mountainous area with extreme poverty. The people of these villages, The Hurdanos, are the focus, and their lifestyles are too terrible for words. We see the escalating starvation, a goat fall to its death (the only time they will eat one, the rest live for milk), a baby die, and of course, the rare time to eat bread. These images are devastating to watch, but at the same time you know it is all real, and it makes you realise what charities, e.g. Comic Relief, Oxfam, are trying to stop happening. With narration by Abel Jacquin. Very good!
Review of Las Hurdes
