The story prompts him to muse about Chloe and her life’s work. While he’s on a date with another woman, a chef explains to Toshi the process by which the restaurant prepares crabs. Tender interactions like these illuminate Chloe’s emotional state, giving viewers more to latch on to than her longing stares and anxious lip biting. But the key, he goes on to say, is to surround yourself with others, from whom you can learn new things and then see yourself and the world differently. Yatsuro affirms her perspective: “Human beings always think too much,” he says to her. They are discussing her photographs, but, it seems, the conversation extends to her life as well.
She wonders if she is doing the right thing and about her inclination to overthink. One particularly poignant moment occurs while Chloe is traveling with her boss, Yatsuro (Issey Ogata). Occasionally, Gray gestures at bits of character development, but they are few and far between. Who is Chloe and where does she come from? Why go to Japan? How long has her husband been dead? Why does photography interest her? Who is Toshi outside of his burgeoning romance with Chloe? What are his desires? The characters remain frustratingly opaque. Yet the narrative’s inertia eventually stiffens these interactions, making them increasingly harder to indulge. Gray does an assured job capturing the languorousness of cross-cultural communication while mostly avoiding the pitfalls of condescension. Her communication with Toshi and his grandmother, neither of whom is proficient in English, comes off in fits and spurts.
Chloe understands some Japanese but doesn’t speak it well. The awkwardness of their early interactions make up the beginnings of blood, which relishes the minute details of people getting to know one another. They are on their way to see Toshi’s grandmother (Sachiko Ohshima), an energetic old woman who tends an enviously lush garden. In the next moment, we see Chloe and Toshi driving along a verdant highway. An arresting opening sequence creates an inviting welcome to the film’s world: two trains chugging across bridges, river water glistening and the sun’s orange glow bathing the skyline. Gray and DP Eric Lin render Tokyo sensitively, the city and nearby countryside enlivened by the film’s soft focus. There’s a lot to marvel at in blood, especially when it comes to aesthetics. Kalyan Chakravarthy Balthazar Sahel Basile Durieux Brittany Piacente Carlos Quijada Cem Olcer Charles Christoforou David Uystpruyst Dominique Zenon Effandi Mohamed Emanuele Goffredo Francois Cote-Paquet Genevieve Trottier Gretchen Bangs Guillaume Dureux Irshad Patel Jean Bennamias Juan Carlos Huerta Juan Sebastian Perez Julien Barbault Keith Acheson Kindra McCall Lianne Forbes Marc-Antoine Bressand Marion Eloy Martin Pélissier Natalianne Boucher Nicolas Bouf Pierre-Yves Marin Renaud Louvet Sébastien Nebout Sotiris Georghiou Souvik Dey Thibault Plancq Tomas Langevin-Côté William Banti Yan Caspar Hirschbuehl Baptiste Lebouc Carlos E.This isn’t initially obvious. Hoover Bernd Angerer Huseyin Caner Jeremy Robert Simon Leclair Richard Clegg Sabrina Gagnon Martin Chabannes Chris Hardman Kim Menaster Annie Normandin Félix Pirritano Troy Summersett Julien Cimino Wesley Chandler Jakub Pazera Paul Lambert Eduardo Bivar Vikas Chandel Scott Mitchell Pascal Clement Daniel Thron Pierre Masseron Pierre Rousseau William Perreault Jacob Yorke Romane Landrieux Berenice Antoine Julien Mercier Virender Dass Wai Sun Cheng Anand V. Murphy Sébastien Moreau Viktor Müller Ryan Tudhope Adam O'Brien-Locke John Nelson Eric Bates Olivier Cauwet Chad Nixon Richard R. Rohit Agarwal Pierre Buffin Ankur Mishra Michelle Eisenreich Katie Hamberger Karen M.
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