Sunday 16 March at 21:30

The film begins with a slap. The father slaps the son. The son looks like Pedro Costa. When Costa made this film, his very first, he was thirty years old. Of course, the things we find in his subsequent works are already here – even if they haven’t yet settled in properly: the light (darkness), the people, what they say, the way they look at each other or embrace. The story: two brothers, Vincente the eldest and Nino the younger one; their father, who has disappeared; and a girl, Clara. All of them seem to be walking under a large shadow, away from any clearing. Shot in stunning black-and-white, Blood is a tale of unprotected childhood and youth in the gloomy atmosphere of the outskirts of a big city, a tale of fear that evokes another – deeper, larger and more disturbing – fear.

Restoration

The digitization in 4K was done from the original 35mm negative and the original mono optical and magnetic sound data.The 35mm material is preserved at Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema/ ANIM. The scanning of the negative in 4K was done on an Oxberry-Cineric wet-gate scanner and the audio recording was supervised by Franco Bosco at ANIM.