Autumn Blood
Autumn Blood is a 2013 English-language Austrian thriller drama film directed by Markus Blunder and starring Sophie Lowe.[1][2]
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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 |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Austria |
Language | English |
Premise
A mother and her two children, an older sister and a younger brother, witness how a man shoots their husband and father. The traumatized boy does not speak ever since. The children grow up and the girl becomes a beautiful young woman, who attracts the attention of some local men. One of them, the son of the man who killed her father, rapes her at a pool in the mountains, while at their home the boy finds that their mother has died in her bed. A while later, the men come to the house of the children and one of them rapes the girl again. After they find that a social worker makes inquiries about the girl at the local post office, where the girl collected welfare instead of her deceased mother, the men come to the house with rifles, apparently to kill the girl and boy. After a hunt, in which one of the men falls to his death and another is killed by his friend, the father kills his son right before he would shoot the girl. He then offers the girl his rifle to shoot him, but she refuses to do so.
Cast
- Sophie Lowe as The Girl
- Maximilian Harnisch as The Boy
- Peter Stormare as The Mayor
- Samuel Vauramo as The Hunter
- Gustaf Skarsgård as The Butcher
- Tim Morten Uhlenbrock as The Friend
- Annica McCrudden as The Social Worker
- George Lenz as The Clerk
- Nelly Gschwandtner as The Hunter's Wife
- Julia Dietze as The Butcher's Wife
- Hansa Czypionka as The Priest
- Jonas Laux as The Father
- Jacqueline Le Saunier as The Mother
- Hannah Payr as Young Girl
- Elias Köfler as Young Boy
- Margarete Tiesel as Village Woman
Reception
The film received a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[3]
References
- Tsai, Martin (18 September 2014). "Review 'Autumn Blood' sheds gratuitous violence". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- "Film Review: Autumn Blood". Film Journal International. 19 September 2014. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- "Autumn Blood (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 August 2016.