Title: It's all true
Product review: ... Land without Bread--... IS a documentary, albeit a Brechtian one. The film certainly mocks the emerging documentary style, as well as the bourgeois confidence that we can understand things from their surface representation. But it's still a documentary, just as Bunuel's fiction films, which frequently subvert their genres' conventions, are nonetheless fiction.Anyway this is academic. What's important is that Land without Bread does compassionately portray its impoverished subjects (as would Bunuel's later film Los Olvidados), moreso than the Strutherian tears and voice-over we've come to expect in our nonfiction pablum.
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