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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary Nik is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to tak...

Directed By: Joshua Marston

Written By: Andamion Murataj, Joshua Marston

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 49 m
The Forgiveness of Blood
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Nik is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to tak...

Directed By: Joshua Marston

Written By: Andamion Murataj, Joshua Marston

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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88
Mar 8, 2012
It's a thriller that feels like a documentary.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 24, 2012
My favorite character is not Nik but his 15-year-old sister, Rudina (Sindi Lacej), who takes over her father's bread delivery route in his rickety wagon and makes a go of it against all odds. Her pluck seems both Old World and New World.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 23, 2012
There is so much to admire in Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood that it's easy to overlook the miracle at its center: Marston's artistic idealism.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 15, 2012
It never exactly lights you on fire, but you always believe it.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 24, 2012
Richly photographed by Rob Hardy (who gave Red Riding: 1974 its almost surreal bleakness), this meticulously researched story (Marston spent a month interviewing families trapped in these vendettas) reveals a culture dominated by male pride and patriarchal selfishness.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
67
Feb 22, 2012
Just as Marston's scrupulous attention to local custom and devotion to social realism recall the work of John Sayles (Lone Star), his occasionally enervating style also recalls Sayles at his worst.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 17, 2012
The film wisely avoids giving its material a large-scale epic quality it can't sustain, but it also results in a project that lacks the complexity to register as more than a handsome little sketch.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sundance Selects, Fandango, Artists Public Domain, Cinereach, Lissus Media, Journeyman Pictures, Phoenix Film Investments, Portobello Pictures
Release Date Feb 24, 2012
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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