Still from The Ties That Bind Us (2024), by Carine Tardieu.
Still from The Ties That Bind Us (2024), by Carine Tardieu.
The Ties that Bind Us (L’attachement)
2:30 pm–4:15 pm
Directed by Carine Tardieu (France and Belgium, 2024, 106 min.). French and Romanian with English subtitles.
In this moving adaptation of Alice Ferney’s novel L’Intimité, director Carine Tardieu crafts a tender, thought-provoking drama about the unpredictable paths love can take.
Sandra (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a fiercely independent librarian with no interest in motherhood, agrees to do a simple favor for her neighbor Alex (Pio Marmaï): watch his young son Elliot while Alex’s wife gives birth. But when tragedy strikes and Cécile doesn’t survive the delivery, Sandra finds herself drawn into an unexpected, evolving bond with both father and child.
Gently observed and deeply humane, The Ties that Bind Us explores how grief, conviction, and intimacy can reshape our most deeply held beliefs, revealing with quiet grace how families are fortified not by obligation, but by attention and care.
“A superb film that understands how absences are the hidden heart of every family.… One of those rare movies that only gets better the more you think about it. What a joy.” —In Their Own League
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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