The Bloody Child

Year: 1996

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: English

Director: Nina Menkes

Drama

The film portrays an interior of violence, drawing on a real incident in which a young U.S. Marine who had just returned from the Gulf War was discovered digging a grave for his murdered wife in the heart of California’s Mojave Desert. It follows his harrowing emotional turmoil amidst the stark, unforgiving landscape.

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