FILM
Sangre (Blood)
Amat Escalante
Mexico, 2005
35mm (35mm). 90min. Color21:30hProduction: Jaime Romandía, Amat Escalante, Carlos Reygadas, Mantarraya, Tres Tunas, NoDream Cinema
Photography: Alejandro Fenton
Screenplay: Amat Escalante
Actors: Cirilo Recio, Laura Saldaña, Claudia OrozcoSinopsis:
Diego's job is to count people from the door of a government building. His wife, Blanca, is fiercely jealous and their relationship is based on sex, watching TV and fighting. His routine, though, is broken by the arrival of his daughter, Karina, whom Blanca refuses to accept. The situation reaches a surprising climax in which Diego loses all control.
Like Carlos Reygadas on whose film Batalla en el cielo he worked as assistant director, Amat Escalante is interested in the existential aspects of the life of the ordinary man. His revealing and prize-winning debut, in which he works with non-professional actors, describes in sober tableaux the far from exuberant life of a simple person.
"This project was born while I went about my daily life in Guanajuato. It was spawned by conversations I overheard while riding the bus, by the foods I observed people eating, the trash I saw them discard. The social and economic inequalities in my country have created a blatant cultural and human imbalance. This engenders disenchantment and frustration among a population which is no longer capable of taking charge of its own future." Amat Escalante
