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Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Friday, March 27 at 6:00 PM

Bill and Turner Ross | New Orleans, LA | 98 min
Genre: Documentary/Narrative Hybrid

In the shadows of the bright lights of Las Vegas, it’s last call for a beloved dive bar known as the Roaring 20s. That’s the premise, at least; the reality is as unreal as the world the regulars are escaping from. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is a mosaic of disparate lives, teetering between dignity and debauchery, reckoning with the past as they face an uncertain future, and singing as their ship goes down. Indie Grits alumni and filmmaking duo Bill and Turner Ross (Western, 2015) return with an elegiac portrait of a tiny world fading away but still warm and beating with the comfort of community. Their beguiling approach to nonfiction storytelling makes for a foggy memory of experience lost in empty shot glasses and puffs of smoke. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

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