Ashes and Blood (French: Cendres et sang) is a 2009 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Fanny Ardant.

[1] A widow, Judith returns to Marseille with her children for the wedding of her sister-in-law.

Judith's husband was murdered in a vendetta-killing a decade earlier.

In keeping with the Greek tragedy tradition of the film, violent family rivalries unravel with fatal consequences.

The newspaper also praised the casting, "the great Ronit Elkabetz is a tremendous credit, as well as the Romanian revelation, Mădălina Constantin.