1989 · debut · noir · youth
O Sangue
Directed by Pedro Costa1h 35m1989
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Our read: O Sangue (1989) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive debut · noir · youth entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured debut / noir, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
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