#628: MARSTON, Joshua: The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)

MARSTON, Joshua (United States)
The Forgiveness of Blood [2011]
Spine #628
Blu-ray


American director Joshua Marston emerged in 2004 with the jolting, Oscar-nominated Maria Full of Grace, about a young Columbian woman working as a drug mule. In his remarkable follow-up, The Forgiveness of Blood, he turns his camera on another corner of the world: contemporary northern Albania, a place still troubled by the ancient custom of interfamilial blood feuds. From this reality, Marson sculpts a fictional narrative about a teenage brother and sister physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land. The Forgiveness of Blood is a tense and perceptive depiction of a place where tradition and progress coexist uneasily, as well as a dynamic coming-of-age drama.

109 minutes
Color
5.1 Surround
in Albanian
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writers


Written by Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj.
Marston was 43 when he directed The Forgiveness of Blood.

The Film


The Extras

The Booklet

Twenty-page booklet featuring an essay by film writer Oscar Moralde.

Commentary

By Marston.

Two new programs

Acting Close to Home, a discussion between Marston and actors Abazi, Halilaj, and Laçej, and Truth on the Ground, featuring on-set interviews with producer Paul Mezey, Abazi, Halilaj, and Laçej.

Audition and rehearsal footage

Trailer

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