THE TIES THAT BIND US
(L’Attachement)
CINEMA COMPETITION
RENOIR THEATRE
Drama / Romance
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1
5:00 pm (Screening ends at 7:20 pm)
Presented in association with:
StudioCanal
France Televisions
Women In Film
North American Premiere | France | 2024 | Drama, Romance | 106 min | In French with English subtitles
Directed by: Carine Tardieu
Written by: Carine Tardieu, Raphaële Moussafir, Agnès Feuvre
Based on the Book by: Alice Ferney
Produced by: Antoine Rein, Fabrice Goldstein (Karé Productions), France 2 Cinéma, Umedia
Cinematography: Elin Kirschfink
Film Editing: Christel Dewynter
Original Score: Eric Slabniak
Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Quenard, César Botti
International Sales: StudioCanal
They say “it takes a village,” a point that The Ties That Bind Us illustrates with great delicacy and compassion. Sandra is a middle-aged, free-thinking woman who runs a bookstore and lives alone. Early one morning her doorbell rings. She tentatively opens the door to find her very pregnant next-door neighbor standing on the landing with her husband and six-year-old son, Elliott. Her water’s broken and they’re off to the hospital. Could Sandra possibly look after the boy for just a few hours? However, things don’t go exactly as planned. And what unfolds will change the lives of both Sandra and Elliott forever. Carine Tardieu‘s seventh feature film pierces the many layers of what it means to be a child, to raise a child, to love a child and to live a life, and the countless bonds that are unconsciously, continually woven over time to create a “family”… no matter what form that structure may take.
Co-writer/director Carine Tardieu worked her way through several posts on film crews and wrote numerous episodes of the TV series College Days (2002), before directing her first shorts, Les Baisers des autres (2003) and L’Aîné de mes soucis (2004), which won the Audience Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She then went on to direct four features: La Tête de maman (2007); The Dandelions (COLCOA 2013); Just to Be Sure (2017); and The Young Lovers (TAFFF 2022). The Ties that Bind Us premiered in Venice and is presented at TAFFF prior to its French release.
