AFS Presents: THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 epic presents the story of an oilman’s insatiable desire for wealth and power during Southern California’s oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Named the Best Film of the 21st Century by The New York Times, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is a relentless drama of outsized ambition and craft that carefully tracks one man’s will to power and descent into madness. By meditating on everything from capitalism, family, and the inability of faith and greed to coexist, Paul Thomas Anderson doesn’t waste a second of the film’s 158 -minute running time and delivers perhaps the finest achievement of his entire filmography. (Davis Rivera)

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Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
USA, 2007, 2h 38min, DCP
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