Blood Ties
A great, exceedingly well-cast, throwback to seventies cinema. Clive Owen's best part since CHILDREN OF MEN.
Blood Ties
New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen) has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Reluctantly waiting for him outside the gates is his younger brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon (James Caan), who raised them alone, seems to favor Chris despite all his troubles. Yet blood ties are the ones that bind, and 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 (Marion Cotillard). But Chris' inevitable descent back into a life of crime proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother's latest transgressions, Frank banishes him from his life. But it's already too late, as the brothers' destiny is bound together, forever.
Genre
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller/Suspense
Runtime
128
Language
English
Director
Guillaume Canet
Cast
Billy Crudup,
Marion Cotillard,
Mila Kunis,
Zoe Saldana,
Matthias Schoenaerts
FEATURED REVIEW
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
When film directors stage a scene from the mid-1970s, we all know how it’s done: They’ll clear everything out of a shot — commercial signage, etc. — that violates the period, and then they’ll plunk down a bunch of 1970s parked cars. Yet what they end up with still doesn’t usually look like the ...
Played at
NoHo 7 3.21.14 - 3.27.14
Monica Film Center 3.21.14 - 3.27.14
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