Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast:
Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J O’Connor, Ciaran Hinds
Synopsis:
Set over a twenty year period the Will Be Blood follows Daniel Plainview (Day Lewis), who rises from a lowly silver miner to become a successful oil baron. Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday, whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil, Plainview travels to the town of New Boston, California, with his young son. Sunday’s preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview’s ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church. As Plainview’s plans come to fruition, a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself, pitting Plainview against Sunday and forcing him to become even more vindictive and ruthless.
Critics:
‘Timeless, sweeping epic.’ BBC
‘Uncompromising, intelligent and searing cinema’ Empire
‘The film is above all a consummate work of art.’ New York Times
Awards/Nominations
Like No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood has been receiving plenty of nominations at the various awards ceremonies including Bafta’s, Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.
There Will Be Blood did win the National Society of Film Critics.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw