Director: Joshua Marston.\u00a0 Albania, 2010.\u00a0 108 minutes.\u00a0 Cert: CLUB.\u00a0 Language: Albanian (subtitled).<\/p>\n
Winner – Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, 2011 Berlin Film Festival<\/p>\n
American director Joshua Marston emerged in 2004 with the jolting, Oscar-nominated\u00a0Maria Full of Grace,<\/em>\u00a0about a young Colombian woman working as a drug mule. In his remarkable follow-up,\u00a0The Forgiveness of Blood,<\/em>\u00a0he turns his camera on another corner of the world: contemporary northern Albania, a place still troubled by the ancient custom of interfamilial blood feuds.<\/p>\n From this reality, Marston sculpts a fictional narrative about a teenage brother and sister physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father\u2019s entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.\u00a0The Forgiveness of Blood<\/em>\u00a0is a tense and perceptive depiction of a place where tradition and progress coexist uneasily, as well as a dynamic coming-of-age drama.<\/p>\n Marston’s outsider’s view lays bare the contradictions between the ancient tradition and the youngsters’ impatience, helped by fine performances from his largely non-professional cast.<\/p>\n Read The Guardian review.<\/a> ****<\/p>\n Read The Irish Times review.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n