Blood (1989)

Highly Recommended

Portugal

Feature Film

Original Title: O Sangue

Writer/Director: Pedro Costa

Cinematographer: Martin Schäfer

Cast: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Canto e Castro, Isabel de Castro, Henrique Viana, Luís Santos

Exquisitely photographed in stunning high contrast black & white, Costa’s highly stylised and pleasingly enigmatic film noir indelibly paints a portrait of Vicente, who may or may not have killed his debt and cancer ridden father, and who has his younger brother, Nino, taken away from him by a man who may or may not be his uncle, leaving him to face on his own a pair of debt collectors, who may or may not have a legitimate claim against him. Iain.Stott