Friday, March 23, 2012
Film iPhones and Ancient Bloodshed: The Forgiveness of Blood at Belcourt
Posted by Jim Ridley on Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Joshua Marston's first feature, 2004's Maria Full of Grace, was an extraordinarily tense, angry and empathetic portrait of a Colombian teen turned drug mule in an attempt to secure a better life for her unborn child. Marston's new film, The Forgiveness of Blood, marks yet another departure for the California-born director: a drama about two Albanian families locked in a blood feud that demands eye-for-an-eye vengeance, according to centuries-old codes that govern even contemporary teenagers with iPhones. It opens tonight for a week's run at The Belcourt.
