Blood Ties (2013)

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Movie
German title Blood ties
Original title Blood ties
Country of production United States ,
France
original language English ,
Italian ,
Spanish
Publishing year 2013
length 127 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Guillaume Canet
script Guillaume Canet,
James Gray
production Alain Attal ,
Guillaume Canet,
John Lesher ,
Hugo Sélignac ,
Christopher Woodrow
camera Christophe Offenstein
cut Hervé de Luze
occupation
synchronization

Blood Ties is an American - French feature film from 2013 . It was directed by Guillaume Canet , who co- wrote the script with James Gray . In the lead roles are Clive Owen and Billy Crudup seen as unequal brothers.

action

The gangster Chris is released from prison after nine years. His brother Frank, who works as a policeman, gets him a job in a garage , where Chris meets Natalie, with whom he falls in love. After a short time, Chris drops his resolution not to become a criminal anymore. When he is robbed of a money transporter , he is followed and shot by Frank. But since Frank has a guilty conscience because he hid when the police showed up during a break-in that Chris committed as a child instead of warning his brother who was arrested, he lets Chris, who also has a hostage, escape and betrays him neither to his colleagues. However, he quits the police service as a result.

After Chris' ex-wife Monica, who runs a brothel for him , is arrested, she agrees to a deal to avoid a prison sentence for having an underage prostitute working in the brothel . She gives the police the bullet that she operated on Chris' shoulder after the attack. Frank, who learns about the arrest planned for the following day, warns his brother.

When Chris learns from his accomplice Mike on the run that the gangster Scarfo, whom Frank has taken to prison and whose ex-girlfriend Vanessa he lives with, wants to kill Frank, he returns and goes in search of his brother. Despite being followed by the police, he manages to get to Grand Central Station , where he shoots Scarfo before Frank can kill him. Then Chris is arrested.

background

Blood Ties is a remake of the 2008 French film Les liens du sang , in which director Guillaume Canet played the role of the policeman brother. The film was shot in New York City turned . It premiered in 2013 at the Cannes International Film Festival , where Blood Ties was presented out of competition.

The end of the film was changed in the US remake in that one brother can save the other while he is too late in the French original.

Both films are based on the novel Les Liens du sang: Deux frères flic et truand (1997) by Michel and Bruno Papet.

synchronization

Blood Ties was dubbed by Hermes Synchron GmbH ; the dialogue was directed by Andreas Pollak .

actor German speaker role
Clive Owen Tom Vogt Chris
Billy Crudup Peter Flechtner Frank
Marion Cotillard Natascha Schaff Monica
Mila Kunis Anja Stadlober Natalie
Zoë Saldaña Tanja Geke Vanessa
Matthias Schoenaerts Martin Kautz Scarfo
James Caan Lutz Riedel Leon
Noah Emmerich Erich Rauker Lieutenant Connellan
Lili Taylor Katrin Zimmermann Marie
Domenick Lombardozzi Michael Iwannek Mike
John Ventimiglia Frank-Otto Schenk Valenti

reception

According to the Rotten Tomatoes film website , 53 percent of the 53 film reviews examined left a positive verdict. The film service believes that the film, as a "mix of brother drama and homage to the gangster cinema of the 1970s, retains many of the qualities of the original, but gets lost in too many secondary threads when the plot is expanded."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FSK approval card (PDF; 33 kB). Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Joachim Kurz: Blood Ties . In: kino-zeit.de . September 25, 2014. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Blood Ties. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on March 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Blood Ties. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved February 19, 2017 .