L’Attachement
The Ties That Bind Us | L’attaccamento
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Fifty-year-old Sandra is proud of her independence, at least until she finds herself having to share space with her neighbor and her two children. It is an adoptive family, and against all predictable skepticism perhaps a new form of affection, a bond, can arise.
A young widower, a bookseller, a pediatrician, two children, an oyster farmer: in the human variety of Carine Tardieu’s film there also coexists a variety of ways in which people create and define a family, through choices and aspirations. An there is no single definition of family, at the end of L’Attachement, apart from one that is based on an “emotional union” that the Parisian director tries to reconstruct piece by piece.
DIRECTORY
Born in Paris in 1973, where he studied cinema and later worked as an assistant director for television. He made his debut with Les baisers des autres (2003), a short film about the crises of a young teenager, and his next work, L’ainé de mes soucis, won the audience prize at the Clermont-Ferrand festival. La tête de maman is his first feature film, and dates back to 2007, while Du vent das mes mollets (2012) with Agnès Jaoui, Denis Podalydès and Isabella Rossellini dates back to 2012. Her subsequent films are presented at festivals such as Cannes (Ôtez-moi d’un doute in 2017) or Shanghai and Roma (Les jeunes amants in 2021). In 2024 it is the time of L’Attachement, which debuts in the Orizzonti section of Venice Film Festival.
