BLOOD TIES
synopsis
New York, 1974. Fifty year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother, Frank, a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon, who’d raised them alone, seems strangely to prefer Chris - this, despite all his troubles. Yet blood ties are the ones that bind. Frank, hoping that his brother has changed, is willing to give him a chance; he shares his home, finds him a job, and helps him reconnect with his children and his ex-wife, Monica. But Chris’ past quickly catches up to him, and his descent back into a life of crime becomes inevitable. For Frank, this descent proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother’s latest transgressions, he banishes him from his life. But it’s already too late; the brothers’ destiny will keep bounded, forever...
international title: | Blood Ties |
original title: | Blood Ties |
country: | France |
sales agent: | Goodfellas |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Guillaume Canet |
film run: | 144' |
release date: | NO 23/08/2013, FR 30/10/2013, NL 31/10/2013, DK 20/02/2014, ES 22/05/2015 |
screenplay: | Guillaume Canet, James Gray |
cast: | Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Lili Taylor |
cinematography by: | Christophe Offenstein |
film editing: | Hervé de Luze |
art director: | Ford Wheeler |
costumes designer: | Michael Clancy |
producer: | Alain Attal, John Lesher, Hugo Sélignac, Christopher Woodrow |
production: | Les Productions du Trésor |
distributor: | Mars Films Distribution, Pa-Dora d.o.o., Fivia d.o.o., Lumière, VerCine |