Autumn Blood | |
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Directed by | Markus Blunder |
Written by | Markus Blunder Stephen T. Barton |
Story by | Gunther Aloys |
Produced by | Markus Blunder |
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Cinematography | Reed Morano |
Edited by | Joe Landauer |
Music by | Robert Miller |
Production companies | Dreamrunner Pictures Mountain Film |
Distributed by | Thim Film ARC Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Austria |
Language | English |
Autumn Blood is a 2013 English-language Austrian thriller drama film directed by Markus Blunder and starring Sophie Lowe. [1]
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.
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]
Award | Date | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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Hollywood Film Awards | 2013 | Best Narrative Feature | Autumn Blood | Won | [3] |
San Diego International Film Festival | 2013 | Best Narrative Feature | Autumn Blood | Won | [3] |
Molins Horror Film Festival | 2014 | Best Narrative Feature | Autumn Blood | Won | [3] |
Best Director | Markus Blunder | Won | |||
Irvine International Film Festival | 2014 | Best Cinematography | Reed Morano | Won | [3] |
Hamilton Film Festival | 2015 | Best Actress | Sophie Lowe | Won | [4] |
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