Blood of My Blood

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Blood of My Blood

2015

1h 46m

Drama

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8 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Walls are torn down between the past and present as two stories from a convent are told simultaneously; a nun is accused of being bedfellows with Satan, and a wealthy Russian attempts to purchase the convent where she was eventually imprisoned.

Kenji Fujishima

Slant Magazine

Bellocchio's aesthetics reflect this conversation between past and present in imaginative ways.

Feb 21, 2016

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Denise Pieniazek

Puesta en Escena (AR)

"Sangue del Mio Sangue" is a beautiful film at the visual and complexly poetic level at the narrative level, which homologates two times as a metaphor for the circularity of life.

Rated: 9/10

Jan 12, 2024

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Fernando E. Juan Lima

Otroscines.com

Past and present, the hypnotic comings and goings of an Italian, their religion and politics, corruption and frivolity, are dissected with an uncanny edge... [Full review in Spanish]

Nov 16, 2022

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Tom Bond

One Room With A View

Some interesting ideas fall apart without the support of a strong script, and Bellocchio's direction is cold comfort.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 23, 2019

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Blake Williams

Cinema Scope

... a beguiling, Dionysian piece of filmmaking that may represent something of a breakthrough in the Italian old hand's decades-long project of evoking an unconscious, spiritual uncanny from out of a material, decreasingly Catholic world.

Nov 18, 2017

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Diana Dabrowska

Cinema Scope

The connections are apparent, but forced; the attempted cinematic blood transfusion does not flow smoothly, and the film winds up in agony, along with its audience.

Sep 25, 2017

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Marco Bellocchio

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Roberto Herlitzka

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Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

Federico

Alba Rohrwacher

Maria Perletti

Lidiya Liberman

Benedetta

Federica Fracassi

Marta Perletti

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Synopsis

Walls are torn down between the past and present as two stories from a convent are told simultaneously; a nun is accused of being bedfellows with Satan, and a wealthy Russian attempts to purchase the convent where she was eventually imprisoned.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Producer: Beppe Caschetto, Simone Gattoni
Screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio
Production Co: RAI Cinema
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Runtime: 1h 46m