PURE BLOOD (Pura sangre)

Pure Blood is a biting satire on vampirism at the heart of capitalism in Colombia, made in the guise of a B-movie and mixing references that go from Citizen Kane to Murnau, George Romero, Howard Hughes, Dracula, and local urban legends. Horror, exploitation, and comedy are blended in this portrait of an old and bedridden sugar tycoon stricken by a rare disease that requires him to undergo an increasing number of blood transfusions, which will be obtained through aberrant stratagems.

Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina (1949 - 2019) is very close to our hearts at Cinema Mentiré since we are named after a concept he created: in opposition to cinema verité (truthful cinema), he advocated for a cinema mentiré (lying cinema). For Ospina, cinema is telling a bunch of lies to reveal one truth, playfully disrupting any certainties and making us suspicious of what images offer us. His self-styled cinematic punk rocker, his accurate and humorous vision, reflected in over 30 brazen films made over 50 years, and his fierce commitment to preserving Latin American film heritage, have made the director a key figure in film history.