Following its theatrical release in December 2021, the acclaimed documentary “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” is now available on DVD as well as streaming portals. The film by Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and its international premiere the same year at the Berlinale in the Panorama section, before going on to have an impressive festival career despite the Corona pandemic.
Synopsis:
In the shadow of the bright lights of Las Vegas, the last round has come for a much-loved dive, Roaring 20’s, home and family substitute for a motley crew of regulars who find distraction from their rough everyday lives here. This is the basic idea of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, a film in which reality is as unreal as the world the regulars escape. It is a mosaic of very different life stories and tells of the last hours of a pub where we meet people who confront the past while facing an uncertain future and who sing loudly while their ship goes down.
Filmmaking duo Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross paint a portrait of a tiny world facing doom, but still providing warmth and comfort to its inhabitants. The filmmakers’ unusual and compelling approach to non-fictional storytelling makes for a foggy memory of events lost in empty shot glasses and clouds of smoke.
Comments:
“Hilarious and sometimes heart-rending.“ (The Guardian)
„A Brilliant, Boozy Hangout Movie. Both a grand cinematic deception and a bold filmmaking experimentation.“ (Indiewire)
„Blurs the lines between fiction and fact to aptly intoxicating effect.“ (Daily Telegraph)
„A tender patchwork of lost souls carving out their own family.“ (Film Stage)
„A dive-bar elegy that creates a pang in the heart. […] Warm and beautiful without being sentimental.“ (Vulture)
„A masterpiece ode to watering holes.“ (NME)
„Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets seems vital and nourishing, a true exemplar of cinema’s ability to shine light on the infinite variety of life in the world. […] The film is a wonder.“(Vanityfair)
„Bursting with humanity, grounded in humility, and in love with the poetry of faces.“ (Rogerebert.com)
„Hugely engaging and impressive.“ (Irish Times)
„Brilliantly chaotic and immersive and so compellingly real.“ (Time Out London)
“A compassionate, tragic, comic, bitter visit to a fictional place full of truthful characters.” (Moviebreak.de)
“Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” had its nationwide theatrical release on 2 December 2021 distributed by UCM.ONE on the NONFY Documentaries label.
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