The Forgiveness of Blood
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 16, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sindi Lacej & Tristan Halilaj | |
Directed by | Joshua Marston | |
Screenwriting by | Joshua Marston | |
Composition by | Jacobo Lieberman | |
Produced by | Paul Mezey | |
Director of Photography: | Rob Hardy |
Entertainment Reviews:
It’s the kind of movie that makes the world feel like a smaller place, suggesting that the similarities connecting us across continents and cultures are more resonant than the things that divide us.
Movieline
Rating: 4/5 --
Joshua Marston hops on another subculture - Albanian blood feuds - and operates sensitively once again in the space between 21st-century ethnographer and enlightened genre director.
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Guardian
Using nonprofessional Albanian performers, real locations, minimal music and what looks like natural light Mr. Marston has worked hard at authenticity....He makes some fine filmmaking choices...
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
The plot comes to a quiet boil. Then unfortunately it falls off the stove.
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Financial Times
4 stars out of 5 -- Thoroughly researched, it smartly depicts the clash between old and new in a country aching for modernisation.
Total Film
Rating: A- --
The fascinating pic is filled with eye-pleasing location shots.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Every scene in the film seems to present startling juxtapositions of the modern and the old....[The film] compellingly exposes an important contradiction in modern Albanian life with commitment, sincerity and evident passion.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
A young man faces a life paying for the misdeeds of his elders in this drama. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a teenager growing up in a small village in Albania; he has little interest in his father's baking business, and is more concerned with surfing the Internet, hanging out with his friends and trying to impress Bardha (Zana Hasaj), a pretty girl he knows from school. But whatever future Nik might hope for is put on hold when his father Mark (Refet Abazi) revives a long-standing feud over a land dispute with his neighbor Sokol (Veton Osmani), leading to a violent confrontation that claims Sokol's life. An ancient Albanian tradition has it that the survivors of a violent murder can kill a man from the family that committed the crime without consequence; however, they can only do so in the open, so Nik and the other men in his household are only safe as long as they stay in their home. As Nik's sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) takes over the family business, his world is reduced to the inside of the family residence, which proves to be almost as maddening as the possibility of being murdered. American filmmaker Joshua Marston shot THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD on location in Albania using a cast of local actors; the film was an official selection at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 85,446
- UPC: 715515099813
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