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Santa Sangre  Severin Films // 1989 // 122 Minutes // Not Rated
Reviewed by Judge Gordon Sullivan // February 7th, 2011  • View
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Charge  Forget everything you have ever seen…  Opening Statement
The typical Hollywood film (which has become, for better or
worse, the world standard) generally features a narrative driven
by the desires of one person, and the film follows that person
through some crisis as they are thwarted in achieving some goal.
It's an old form of storytelling, and differs very little from
the form as described by Aristotle centuries ago. Cinema doesn't
have to be that way, despite the ubiquity of Hollywood cinema.
No, with varying degrees of success and fame, directors and
artists have been challenging our notions of what cinema is and
could do. Out of the