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
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