The Forgiveness of Blood (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray 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: 3/5 --
[A] low-key tale of life in rural Albania.
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Time Out
[A] work of fiction, based on present-day fact, that's quietly affecting and surprisingly dramatic...
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 3/5 --
Sticks with you, even though the ending is not entirely satisfying.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 3/4 --
It's a searing portrait of a dangerous generational divide that ruins lives, told with a gentle touch.
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Scene-Stealers.com
With the exception of a romantic interest for Nik to demonstrate what he's missing on the outside that rings slightly false, the film's realism gives a different shade to a story that follows a rather traditional route.
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Moveable Fest
4 stars out of 5 -- Thoroughly researched, it smartly depicts the clash between old and new in a country aching for modernisation.
Total Film
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: 91,770
- UPC: 715515099714
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