Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015)

Original title

Une histoire de fou

Directed by

Robert Guédiguian

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 14m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish journalist is badly injured in a bomb attack by Armenian militants in Madrid in 1981. The story follows the aftermath and the people connected to the event.

seriousreflectivetensesomberbiographicalearnestdeliberatehistorical

What happens

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (French title: Une histoire de fou) is a 2015 French drama film produced and directed by Robert Guédiguian, co-written by Guédiguian and Gilles Taurand, loosely based on the autobiography La Bomba by Spanish journalist José Antonio Gurriarán, who was left in a semi-paralyzed state after a bomb attack by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia in Madrid in 1981. The film had is world premiere in the Special Screenings section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2015. It was theatrically released in France on 11 November 2015 by Diaphana Distribution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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