Country: Albania
Director: Joshua Marston
Cast: Refet Abazi, Veton Osmani & Tristan Halilaj.
Nik’s father, Mark delivers bread to his village by taking a shortcut across his neighbor’s field. With a short time, A land dispute problem arises between Nik's father and his neighbor that ends up in killing.
The movie talks about the situation when the younger generation stuck in the ancient customs and laws. Gjakmarrja is a custom that allows the relatives of the victim to seek revenge by killing a member of the murderer's family means eye-for-an-eye. The killing can only take place outside of the home and the primary target of the victim's family will be the male adults of the murderer's family. The Forgiveness of Blood was submitted as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film and due to a protest against the movie forced the Academy to reject it from entering the list. Overall, Marston’s slow narrative can be a problem to some audiences, on the positive side, the overarching sense of tension created by Marston compensates the slowness in the plot.
Verdict: Good
Director: Joshua Marston
Cast: Refet Abazi, Veton Osmani & Tristan Halilaj.
Nik’s father, Mark delivers bread to his village by taking a shortcut across his neighbor’s field. With a short time, A land dispute problem arises between Nik's father and his neighbor that ends up in killing.
The movie talks about the situation when the younger generation stuck in the ancient customs and laws. Gjakmarrja is a custom that allows the relatives of the victim to seek revenge by killing a member of the murderer's family means eye-for-an-eye. The killing can only take place outside of the home and the primary target of the victim's family will be the male adults of the murderer's family. The Forgiveness of Blood was submitted as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film and due to a protest against the movie forced the Academy to reject it from entering the list. Overall, Marston’s slow narrative can be a problem to some audiences, on the positive side, the overarching sense of tension created by Marston compensates the slowness in the plot.
Verdict: Good
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