film

Barcelona's Jewish Film Festival has been running since 1999 - this year's edition runs throughout October with screenings at La Filmoteca, Institut Français and Cinema Truffaut in Girona, and this outing for James Schamus's 2016 feature debut Indignation is part of the programme. Logan Lerman stars as Marcus, a Jewish student from New Jersey who enrols at a conservative college in early-1950s Ohio. There his experiences reveal the deep and ingrained anti-Semitism at the college, and themes of identity, repression and the clash between personal freedom and societal expectations are also explored, often painfully. 

Indignation is based on Philip Roth's 2008 novel of the same name, which was part of the author's late-career blooming alongside the likes of American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain and The Plot Against America. Film critics have sometimes complained of a certain airlessness in adaptations of Roth, but the absorbing and affecting Indignation suffers no such problems.