Pelican Blood (2010 film)

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's novel by Cris Cole. The two main protagonists, Nikko (Harry Treadaway), and Stevie (Emma Booth), are self-destructive people who have met through a suicide website. Nikko has an obsessive compulsive personality.

Pelican Blood
Film poster
Directed byKarl Golden
Written byCris Cole
Based onPelican Blood
by Cris Freddi
Produced byRobert Bernstein
Douglas Rae
John McDonnell
StarringArthur Darvill
Oona Chaplin
Harry Treadaway
Emma Booth
CinematographyDarran Tiernan
Edited byMartin Brinkler
Music byNiall Byrne
Production
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Release date
  • September 8, 2010 (2010-09-08) (Toronto)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

"Pelican Blood is a fraught drama about youthful angst and rebelliousness set (very incongruously) in the world of birdwatching... that evokes memories of Trainspotting...[It] doesn't really hang together. None the less, there is enough raw talent here to enable the film to take wing."[1]

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  1. ^ Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 18 June 2010