Angelina Jolie takes Baricco to screen

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 15 - In her sixth directorial effort, US actress Angeline Jolie has taken Italy's literary lion Alessandro Baricco to the screen for Without Blood, an adaptation of his 2002 novel Senza Sangue which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night.
    Filmed at Cinecittà in Rome, it is a tale of a family, war, trauma and revenge.
    The film starts with a massacre in a remote village in the Wild West, with a little girl the sole survivor. Years later, two people, Nina (Salma Hayek Pinault) and Tito (Demián Bichir), meet while she is buying a newspaper from him and their routine chat becomes a conversation in a bar about a traumatic past, each with their own version.
    NIna is the girl who survived the massacre and Tito is the boy who shot dead her father - but it was he who made sure she lived.
    As the tale goes on, from a mere memory it becomes an anatomy of a vendetta without blood.
    Tales of war and their consequences are a recurrent theme in Jolie's directorial work.
    photo: Jolie presents Callas biopic by Pablo Larrain at Venice fest (ANSA).