Sangre De Mi Sangre (2007/aka Blood
Of My Blood/Genius/IFC DVD)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: C-
We have
seen many films about young immigrants trying to make it in the streets of a
major U.S. city and Christopher Zalla’s Sangre
De Mi Sangre (2007) is one of those films.
To its credit, it has good casting, decent acting and does get out there
with the camera and is a sincere, energetic attempt to tell its tale. Unfortunately, it is one we have seen too
many times and no matter how true it can remain, this one simply adds nothing
new.
In this
case, a teen (Jorge Adrian Espindola) searches for the father he never knew and
gets involved in more bad situations with bad news people than he should, yet
he acts much more surprised than us in this respect. With some shades of Midnight Cowboy (the part about being exploited by the city) the
film will simply keep reminding you of other, better films. It is worth a look if you are really curious,
but the longer it went on, the more predictable it got, with nowhere to go.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is on the soft side, but that is its
stylizing, though the grain is a bit much.
Director of Photography Igor Martinovic makes some choices that work and
others that do not, affecting an already problematic script. The Dolby Digital 5.1 is dialogue-based,
rarely engages its surrounds and is good for a low budget film. There are no extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
