The Tree of Blood's reviews
Media reviews
Cinemanía
Metaphorical and overflowing, like most of his filmography [...] 'The Tree of Blood' delves into the atavism, miscegenation and cruelty of present society.
El País
Medem closes a tentative stage, in search of a reformulation of himself that he did not find, to propose the bold declaration of principles of those who are willing to go beyond the excess of 'Caótica Ana'.
El Mundo
Medem marks a triple mortal jump without a net and builds an ambitious movie that's kaleidoscopic and delirious.
El Periódico
Julio Medem manages to recover with this story -in which one enters or not- part of the lost balance of major titles such as 'The Red Squirrel' and 'Lovers of the Arctic Circle'.
ABC
What he relates here could be, in other hands, conventional, artificial, false, but not in his: a story of electrified loves, stormy relationships, past poisonous and volcanic sex [...] They are souls of folletín resolved by a formidable acting body that Medem's camera.
Fotogramas
'The Tree of Blood' is as excessive as it is large in its need to reach a singularity that, in these times of homogeneity, is almost a symptom of resistance.