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Ashes and Blood

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2009 · 105 min Drama
6.7 / 10 · TMDB

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her fears and secrets, allows herself to be influenced by her children's wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousin's wedding. They set off to spend a summer in the old country, discovering their roots and their past. But Judith's return revives old hatreds between rival clans. The spiral of violence is inexorably set in motion, blood will tell...

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Original Title Cendres et sang
Year 2009
Country France, Romania, Portugal
Genre Drama
Director Fanny Ardant
Runtime 105 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.7/10 (5 votes)

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The film constructs a tense family drama, relying on the contrast between the luminous hope of reunion and the dark pull of ancestral blood feuds. It explores the fragility of identity in exile through the physicality of landscapes and guarded silences.

What lingers after the final frame is the chilling inevitability of inherited violence and the quiet devastation it leaves on a new generation. A sobering reflection on the prisons of the past. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Fanny Ardant

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