‘Blood’
Address Peter Beach
interpreters Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Ines de Medeiros
Year 1989
premiere February 24, 2023
★★★
you have to have fun ‘Blood’Portuguese director’s first feature film Peter Beachwith his outstanding photography, an authentic thesis on how to make black and white lighting. One of the operators thanked for his contributions to the film is his fellow countryman. Acacio de AlmeidaThe man who brought light, albeit in black and white, to the modernity of the 80s, especially with Alain Tanner’s photographs of ‘In the White City’.
What ‘la sangre’ tells is harsh and vulgar, in an almost thoughtful tone that Costa usually frames and narrates. However the composition of each shot is uniquely beautifulA style of photography that refers to the whitish skies of John Ford’s films, the Nouvelle Vague or the early titles of the new German cinema, Jacques Tourneur’s ‘film noir’ and independent films of the ’80s and ’90s. brought to life the minimalist black and white drift stories. “Blood” is also a minimal story, but also a tense melodrama, about two brothers and missing father. Sometimes they look more like ghosts than earthly beings, half-awake figures because they move to the rhythm of the camera. a movie with a fascinating atmosphere This meant the debut of the future director of ‘En el cuarto de Vanda’, nowadays in Barcelona ‘The Song of Pedro Costa’ exhibition It was exhibited at La Virreina.