RIVALS aka LES LIENS DU SANG

Year: 2008
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Marie Denarnaud. Clotilde Hesme. Mehdi Nebbou. Helene Foubert. Eric Bonicatto. Olivier Perrier, Carole Franck, Luc Thuillier, Marie Gili-Pierre, Fred Ulysse, Nadia Fossier, Pierre Pellet
Director: Jacques Maillot
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 103 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong sex, language and violence
UK Release Date: 5 December 2008 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis

Lyon, the late 1970s.

Police inspector François (Guillaume Canet) learns that his brother, Gabriel (François Cluzet), has been released from prison after serving ten years for murder. There's no happy reunion for the cop and his older brother, but they share a desire to draw a line under the past. Gabriel tries to settle down and François bends over backwards to help him.

But real life and the demons of the past catch up with them. For these two brothers divided by the lives they've chosen but bonded by blood, the paths they follow strangely seem to lead them to the same impasse.