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A struggling family in Albania, wrestling with tradition, must unite against a mysterious clan's aggressions, leading to a 'blood feud' that is all too familiar in the Balkans.
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25 Feb 2017
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ЧОС - Сербский фильм
Бизнес мясника Скендера находится на грани банкротства. Его лавка не приносит дохода, что приводит к постоянным конфликтам с женой и двумя взрослыми детьми, которые мечтают о лучшей жизни. Однажды Скендер замечает возле своего магазина роющихся в отходах оборванцев. Прогнав нищих, мясник вскоре обнаруживает их снова. Оказывается, его гости — подобранные живущей в горах ведьмой беспризорники, и у их приемной матери имеются старые счеты к Скендеру и его семье.
Албанский фильм ужасов, которые, к сожалению, имеет с хоррорами мало чего общего, при этом имея интересный сюжетный задел для необычного фильма в жанре, он не может даже, не то что повысить, поддержать градус интереса, который во время просмотра постепенно понижается, отходя все дальше от показателя заданного синопсисом .… -
Albania, a cuasirural town filled with supertisions and deep blood feuds that run forever. A family with a failing business and a minor altercation with a group of mountain kids ignite an old blood feud that was supposedly over. This family that doesn't feel threatened by old traditions now is right smack in the middle of an old blood feud. Its a slow burn film and I love that if they wow me at the end, like a movie once said. Brutal, gory, haunting. This is my thing.
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I have no idea what transpired during the 80 minutes of this film, I spent most of it swiping profiles on Hinge and learnt that somebody I worked with is cheating on her husband. So much for family, which is somehow the theme of this movie.
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MIFF 2017 Film #8:
My personal bar of expectations was low for this one & I'm not sure they cleared it.
80 minutes long & it felt a bit padded.
This tale of an Albanian family feud has the slightest residue of supernatural elements, so MIFF organisers decided to place it into this year's slightly anaemic Night Shift section.
As my mate Jon said, the only thing that qualifies this for Night Shift is its 11:30pm screening time.
Extra points for using all of the Instagram filters in the space of one film (the digital grading was a bit over the top, but interesting.).
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BLOODLANDS was a solid film, a story built around the true tradition of Albanian blood feuds, only with one of the families involved having an ancient witch for a matriarch. The film is at its best in the opening half, with kitchen sink drama interspersed with deeply eerie dream sequences. Once the plot mechanics kick in for the climax of the film it never quite hits high gear. Still, a suitably engaging, well-acted film.
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If you’ve heard of a blood feud, those in the Balkans take on a wholly other, more vicious meaning. Of course, these feuds don’t happen anymore, at least officially: in Kosovo, for instance, mass reconciliations during the 1990s supposedly took care of thousands upon thousands of them.
However, everything from ‘selective interpretation’ of the peacemaking process to the lack of consistent law and order(/justice) is said to have extended blood feuds in Kosovo and Albania into the 21st century. Kastrissios uses dark fantasy, mingling it with all too real and pressing socioeconomic situations of those in Northern Albania, and what emerges is a horrifying allegory for the endlessness of these bloody feuds.Full review here: fathersonholygore.com/2018/04/29/bloodlands-an-albanian-parable/
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Initially builds character and mood well, maximising superstition and locale, but clumsily paced second half feels underdeveloped; somehow both elongated and rushed.