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‘Without Blood’ Review: Angelina Jolie Goes Back To Basics With An Artful Wartime Revenge Drama – Toronto Film Festival
‘Without Blood’ review: Angelina Jolie goes back to basics with an artful wartime revenge drama – Toronto Film Festival
But even after tackling conflicts in Bosnia ( In the Land of Blood and Honey, 2011), Cambodia ( First They Killed My Father, 2017), and even the Second World War ( Unbroken, 2014), adapting Alessandro Baricco’s 2002 short story of the same name is a bold gambit; it’s a deliberately ambiguous two-hander that will have viewers wondering if they’ve missed a title card or two. It is simply a civil war, the kind than can (and has happened) anywhere, and in an extended introduction we see it play out in a vicious Wild West environment: men on horseback lasso a man, pull him from his horse and drag him through the fields. As if in a poker game, their faces reveal nothing, and the film drifts into a kind of stasis that, if you choose to go with it, becomes a fascinating fever dream: Nina, the angel of vengeance with a pistol in her purse, and Tito without a leg to stand on as she picks at the guilt that’s been eating him for years.
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