Few filmmakers can boast a body of work as audacious, beautiful or challenging as that of Pedro Costa, and Bloodis one of the most extraordinary debuts of the past twenty years.
Filmed in startling monochrome and demonstrating a love and knowledge of classical Hollywood and European art cinema, Blood is a lushly stylized romantic fable. It explores the plight of two brothers coming to terms with the death of their father and the legacy of violence and debt he has left behind. Languid and unsettling, beautiful and intimate, with echoes of Tourneur, Bresson, Ray and Straub-Huillet, Blood is both elusive and utterly mesmerising.
“A prodigious debut film bursting with visual and narrative ideas, homages and a desperate romanticism” James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario
“Costa’s films can inspire an obsessive devotion”Thom Andersen, California Institute of the Arts
“Costa’s remarkable, dreamlike debut ...the aesthetic is reminiscent of an inkily black-and-white Badlands” Hannah Lack, Dazed & Confused
“Undoubtedly one of the most remarkable film debuts of the last 20 years” Michelle Carey, Senses of Cinema
Extras
Presented in a new High-Definition transfer approved by the director.
A filmed appreciation with Professor João Bénard da Costa, author and Director of the Portuguese Cinematheque.
New and improved English subtitle translation.
Booklet featuring essays by author and critic Adrian Martin and journalist Frédéric Bonnaud.
