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The Bloody Child

Nina Menkes mashes up true crime with Macbeth in this hallucinatory vision of home-front violence in Gulf war-era America.

Drama 1996 86 mins Not rated

Director: Nina Menkes

CC

Overview

A US Marine is arrested as he attempts to dispose of his murdered wife’s body in the desert. From this bleak true story, Menkes crafts a nightmarish, non-linear account of domestic violence. Real Marines play themselves in semi-staged scenes that are combined with extracts from Macbeth and hallucinatory visions from an unnamed Arab country, to create a dizzying, disturbing critique of Gulf War-era America.

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