Blood Tea and Red String
7 /10 1 Votes7
Initial DVD release November 7, 2006 Duration Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Animation, Fantasy Screenplay Christiane Cegavske Writer Christiane Cegavske Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 2, 2006 Similar movies A Town Called Panic (2009), Corpse Bride (2005), Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), Toys in the Attic (2009), The Boxtrolls (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood tea and red string trailer
Blood Tea and Red String is a stop-motion-animated feature film, called by director Christiane Cegavske a "fairy tale for adults". It was released on February 2, 2006 after a production time of 13 years, having been filmed in various places in the West Coast and in two studios. The musical score was composed and performed by Mark Growden.
Contents
Cegavske says in the audio commentary to the DVD for this film that it is to be the first in a trilogy.
Blood tea and red string trailer
Critical reception
Brett D. Rogers of Frames Per Second magazine praised Blood Tea, calling it "exquisitely realized ... an antidote to modern digital precision and diluted creativity." The same review highlighted Mark Growden's score as suiting the film perfectly, "[w]rapping Blood Tea's intricate scenery and its characters' wordless dialect in a lingering, haunting layer of spectral sound." Harvard's Deirdre Barrett also reviewed the film positively. “’Each man kills the thing he loves' seems to be message of the film," she wrote, "Mice, rats and spider compete for a doll and her exotic child with tragic consequences... The whole film had a dream or storybook feel. But it is the childhood nightmare or the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Its magic serves sudden, violent death as often as love or beauty. It’s a tale with childhood’s imagery but not a tale for children.”
References
Blood Tea and Red String WikipediaBlood Tea and Red String IMDb Blood Tea and Red String themoviedb.org