‘Without Blood’ Author Says Angelina Jolie Made “Characters I Had Imagined Come To Life”; Filmmaker Says “He Was Almost Challenging Me” – TIFF
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie‘s TIFF world premiere Without Blood is based on Alessandro Baricco‘s intriguing novel which is set a time of war, but the location and era aren’t defined.
The movie follows a grown woman who comes face-to-face with her father and her brother’s murderer, now much older, the two intelligently hashing out and making sense of the atrocity (played respectively by Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir).
Without calling out the location specifically, Jolie shot what appears to be a Mexican turn of the century era — but in Italy.
Last night at the world premiere, Jolie said during the post-screening Q&A, “He said to me, when I first met with Baricco, they’re going to force you to change the end, they’re going to force you to pick a country, they’re going to force you to decide what year it is.
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