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Blood Relatives (1977)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Uneasy and only partly successful thriller, taken from one of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels, with Sutherland overshadowing the rest of the cast as the detective investigating the assault and murder of a young girl in Montreal. The result is pretty much par for the Chabrol course, with the girl's family - a hive of incest that provides the chief suspects - pictured as a typically degenerate example of the bourgeoisie. But it's mainly rather wooden, and shot in a flat television style; only towards the end do suspense and the director's full talent really take hold.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: Denis Héroux, Eugène Lepicier
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Stéphane Audran, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 95 mins
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