Autumn Blood

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Autumn Blood
Autumn Blood poster.jpg
Film poster
Directed byMarkus Blunder
Written byMarkus Blunder
Stephen T. Barton
Story byGunther Aloys
Produced byMarkus Blunder
Starring
Cinematography Reed Morano
Edited byJoe Landauer
Music byRobert Miller
Production
companies
Dreamrunner Pictures
Mountain Film
Distributed byThim Film
ARC Entertainment
Release date
  • September 14, 2013 (2013-09-14)(Oldenburg International Filmfest)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageEnglish

Autumn Blood is a 2013 English-language Austrian thriller drama film directed by Markus Blunder and starring Sophie Lowe. [1]

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Plot

A mother and her two children, an older sister and a younger brother, witness a man shoot their husband and father. Traumatized, the boy never speaks again. The children grow up and the girl becomes a beautiful young woman, who attracts the attention of some local men. One day while the girl is swimming alone in a natural spring in the mountains a man appears, he rapes her and she staggers back home. While at their home the boy finds that their mother has died in her bed. A while later the men, an older father, his grown son, and his sons friends, come to the house of the children and one of them rapes the girl again.

Later, they find out a social worker is making inquiries about the girl at the local post office, because the girl has collected welfare instead of her deceased mother. So the men come to the house with rifles, apparently to kill the girl and boy and a hunt begins. During this hunt for the children one of the men falls to his death, another is killed by his friend, then right before the son shoots the girl the father kills his own son. He then offers the girl his rifle to shoot him, but she refuses to do so.

Cast

Reception

The film received a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [2] The Village Voice noted that Autumn Blood "hovers between the allegorical and literal" being at the same time "beautiful and brutal, sparse and lush, primal and modern". The review lauded the film for being "engaging, even haunting" because of its "messy flesh-and-blood characters". [1]

Accolades

AwardDateCategoryRecipientResultRef.
Hollywood Film Awards 2013Best Narrative FeatureAutumn BloodWon [3]
San Diego International Film Festival 2013Best Narrative FeatureAutumn BloodWon [3]
Molins Horror Film Festival 2014Best Narrative FeatureAutumn BloodWon [3]
Best DirectorMarkus BlunderWon
Irvine International Film Festival2014Best Cinematography Reed Morano Won [3]
Hamilton Film Festival2015Best Actress Sophie Lowe Won [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Autumn Blood (R)". The Village Voice . Archived from the original on 7 September 2016.
  2. "Autumn Blood (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Autumn Blood". dreamrunnerpictures.com.
  4. List of recipients and nominees of Hamilton Film Festival awards