''Pelican Blood'' is a 2010 film which premiered at the 2010
Edinburgh Film Festival. It is a low-budget film, shot in a freewheeling style, directed by Karl Golden, adapted from
Cris Freddi
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Cris may also refer to:
Places
* Criș, the Romanian name for the river Körös in Hungary
* Criș (Târnava Mare), a tributary of the Târnava Mare in Mureș County, ...
's novel by
Cris Cole Crispin "Cris" Cole is a British writer and producer.
Career
Born in Wallingford, England, Cole grew up in London and attended Elliott School in Roehampton. After leaving the Elliott School, he worked as a professional guitarist and bass player f ...
. The two main protagonists, Nikko (
Harry Treadaway
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), and Stevie (
Emma Booth), are self-destructive people who have met through a suicide website. Nikko has an obsessive compulsive personality.
"''Pelican Blood'' is a fraught drama about youthful angst and rebelliousness set (very incongruously) in the world of
birdwatching
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... that evokes memories of
Trainspotting...
tdoesn't really hang together. None the less, there is enough raw talent here to enable the film to take wing."
[Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 18 June 2010]
External links
Pelican Blood at Ecosse Films*
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References
2010 films
British drama films
2010 drama films
English-language Irish films
2010s English-language films
2010s British films
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