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There Will Be Blood

• 01 Feb 2008

In the beginning there is darkness. And in the darkness, a man with a pickaxe claws at the earth as if he's looking for the way back in. He grunts from such heavy labour but he keeps right on digging. Paul Thomas Anderson's fifth film - his first unalloyed masterpiece, and nothing less than a twentieth century foundation myth - shapes up like this, in stark, primitive strokes and sounds. It will be 15 minutes or more before we hear a line of dialogue. Jonny Greenwood's orchestral score cuts in Read more