Ralph Fiennes on his mother, the novelist Jennifer Lash, and her best work "Blood Ties"

In this film, Ralph Fiennes goes on a journey with the help of other members of his family to uncover how his mother's emotionally scarred youth was to have a profound effect upon their own extraordinary upbringing.
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Oscar-winning actor Ralph Fiennes, acclaimed for his roles in Schindler's List and The English Patient, is one of six children. His mother, Jennifer Lash, who died in 1993, was a writer. Her last novel, Blood Ties, is a powerful, often harrowing account of the damage a careless and unstable mother can unwittingly wreak upon a child. Lash herself had an unhappy, distressed childhood, which included being certified insane, and she was determined that she would provide a nurturing environment for her own children. In the 1960s, she gave up a promising career as a novelist to devote herself to raising her large family of four sons, two daughters and a foster son. In Blood Ties, the figure of Violet Farr, the unbending, distant and unwilling matriarch, is drawn from Jennifer's own mother, while the pain and isolation of the love-starved child, Spencer, mirrors that of Mick, the withdrawn, troubled foster son she took on.
Directed by Samira Osman, 1997.
© Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution

[@Vickymumof4]

Ralph is just beautiful. He’s so like his dad!

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

his dad is not beautiful

[@CatherineLee3000]

Ralph looks a lot like his dad!

[@CatherineLee3000]

Ralph is handsome, in my opinion.

[@ceciliadanielsson9530]

Those eyes!

[@udokanmaogbonna387]

I first saw this guy as vildermolt

[@Sonic-dogmagic]

Ralph looks so much like his father!

[@nesaalli8778]

With 6 children she did quite a lot and books and writing and to looking after so many children and moving from one place to the next she is a genus

[@irenakozmos7373]

Stumbled upon this as a great admirer of Ralph Fiennes. What a gem! For anyone to watch! What a good job she did with this bunch.

[@kinawinkelstrahle2431]

Absolutely amazing! Just so sad Jini couldnt see what became of all her wonderful children, that extraordinary heart of honesty, caring and love she planted in them. These 30 years was never wasted. They will live on for generations because of what she did as a great Mother. It brings tears to my eyes of gratitude. Thank you Jini what you did for all of us because of your total commitment. Your blessings will live on.❤ Kina from Sweden🥰

[@nesaalli8778]

She was a wonderful woman to cope with 7 children and try to do some thing for her self she was an angel 😇 to do all that xx

[@nirupikawijesinghe340]

The english patient. ....unforgettable movie. ..

[@shirleymuhleisen683]

Incredible biography of the brilliant one-of-a-kind Jenny, by her husband and the seven children she raised. A keeper story to pass along 🕊

[@carmelmulroy6459]

I really want to read her book. But l would be afraid because it sounds so heartbreaking. Her uncle seems like an amazing person.

[@destinytaylor1479]

It’s insane that Martha was pregnant with Hero at this time. His grandmother would be proud of him too

[@iivikaelva5825]

Happy big family, wonderful parents, brothers and sisters of Ralph Fiennes. So good memories in this documentary film about the Ralph´s Mother Jennifer Lash. All family members are so talent humans. It´s really wonderful.

[@aileenscheiner6969]

I had the joy of meeting Jini on my uncles farm in Laxfield Suffolk. She has just returned from a pilgrimage to Lourdes. What a delightful, very special lady!

[@christinaheesakacowden-wut3809]

I know how devestating it can feel to have a book rejected in which you poured your heart and your soal, a book, that is not just a book, but a living thing, something so personal and important. The book becomes the person who wrote it an in this case the rejection of the book becomes the rejection of the person. This becomes then an opportunity to work on oneself, finding out, that the Story itself it not the Beeing or creator, because the creator is "Spirit", thoughts are spirit and always free. The manifestations lead us astray, become chains, false Gods. It took me a few painful years of awakening and self work to realize this. Now I write, because I love to write, without hoping for a specific reaction. I just do it because it feels right. The letting go of expectations can then bring the right ressonance and if the feeling is right, the resonance will be positive.

[@kevinbyrne5265]

I'm so glad I saw this portrait of Jennifer Lash and her family. It resonates with me to the core, by that I mean the absence of love deprives a child of the most fundamental need in life. That rejection is so powerful that your whole being is reduced unless you have the courage of what Jennie Lash di at sixteen and asserted that she did not have to repeat the cold environment that she was brought up in, as so many are and set about as an individual she was going to love entirely warts and all. What a journey that liberated her children to live in the real world and still have love at it's core. You can see that in the grown up children and the way they speak about her and their lives together. Its their hands on the shovel digging into the earth, that is the image that come to my mind seeing her hands on that shovel, on a blade of grass, living in the faces she photographed. It's a whole families journey with a guiding light, human, very human and earthed. What a woman.

[@cristinadiazabella1553]

Some people are the artwork... the masterpiece of what they made with their existence. ❤️❤️❤️ What a beautiful woman. ❤️

[@user-iz6id1sb7d]

The Greek Orthodox paintings of Holy Mary with Jesus as a baby are so beautiful!!!!

[@pam0626]

20:45: Martha Fiennes seems like a lovely woman. And her son, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, looks just like her.

[@fan1985ful]

Why is the whole family beautiful 🤣

[@marjanp4784]

No wonder Napoleon said "Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized and educated nation"...

[@angelicabotones8559]

This comment is so true and endearing. Mothers are the ones who also nurture the love for curiosity and enrich society.

[@marjanp4784]

@@angelicabotones8559 yeah...

[@TotallyLostSoul]

His voice.. 😍

[@tokage9986]

What beautiful English!

[@avalonarcher8452]

Thank you for uploading this documentary! I appreciate it very much, since I missed it when it was aired on TV over 2 decades ago. This footage offers more insight into the Fiennes's than any typical interview could do. As much as I liked "Chromophobia", "Onegin" is in my opinion Martha's and Ralph's best collaboration. What a fascinating family!

[@jenniferpower981]

What a beautiful family,Jini was a truly remarkable woman,genuinely inspiring.

[@58christiansful]

Absolutely fascinating. And how beautiful they all look!

[@Isnt_it_romantic]

Oh, how sexy is Ralph Fiennes accent! I love it. Imagine hearing it in person each day.

[@bobo-kj6od]

This is wonderful. Thank you for posting.

[@lucindaarmour4685]

Thank you for uploading this. Fascinating.

[@maiabelenina]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@nesaalli8778]

Thank you for your story I love it xx

[@nesaalli8778]

I love the Irish they are warm hearted and there cooking is great I have lots of friends there my children are half Irish and South American 🇬🇾 Guyana

[@nesaalli8778]

I love your blood ties story I enjoyed it so much and listening the way you was brought up xx

[@claudialein]

I love this documentary and I has been looking for it for years...

[@inesmolina1598]

Hace unos años mi hermano mayor me regaló la.pelicula "Lutero " , aún la conservo ,me es muy preciada ,,no sabía que eran hermanos .¡ Bendiciones para toda la familia!

[@OkcanaK3]

Thank you very much 💖

[@lindseycarribean5113]

He took his dad's looks.

[@noelinejohnson7410]

This is beautiful I enjoyed it thank you so very much for sharing 🌹🙏🥰

[@nesaalli8778]

Very nice story thank you every one has to tell there own story xx

[@optimistnow7491]

What a beautiful legacy to leave behind …..

[@alimora5769]

Beautiful documental work

[@LotusLady9]

Thank you very interesting

[@nesaalli8778]

In our family we adapt a girl she becomes a nurse and she has 2 kids she now live in America and now one of our family 👪 she was ine day old when we adapt her God bless her and her family 👪

[@per-olofdofenfalck3211]

Great story 👍

[@allaboutmyfaves4299]

OMYGADDD! HERO HAS HIS RESEMBLANCE FROM HIS MOM AND GRANDMOTHER! SPECIALLY WHEN SMILING 🥺💗💗💗💗

[@user-lm2lb9qb9y]

Very nice 👍

[@nesaalli8778]

Very sad story xx

[@inesmolina1598]

Madre increíble .Hijos amantes .

[@nesaalli8778]

I was a Radar operator I use to make the machine wiring up and put all the components I did that for years xx

[@nesaalli8778]

I love your story you can read me one every night 🌃

[@inesmolina1598]

Ahora sé porqué estanhermoso .

[@nesaalli8778]

I am always giving table and chairs to people all mine left home 🏡 and left lots so I give the needed it is very good to give I live giving I do not like to received because It is too much to manage xx

[@cripplehawk]

4:40-5:04 A lot of truth in what she said.

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

not really. it's not that black and white. i bet she didn't want an empty nest.

[@nesaalli8778]

That is natural brothers and sisters behaves in all family 👪 screaming and shouting at each other .my brothers use to ask me for iron clothes and I will say to them that do I look your mum laugh all family had there own story .

[@pls_convert_2_a_JW]

❤

[@leilaniford3574]

Ginny having been forever forgiving isn't the end of it. Me too was forever forgiving until my 50s. The scars the fresh wounds left me to either survive or kill myself. I chose out of pride to survive. I suppose there is no way to measure it. Beautiful story. Thank you. Your mother was a brilliant light for you. A beautiful beacon.

[@leilaniford3574]

A beautiful woman. She found her voice and herself in the love for you.

[@leilaniford3574]

Thank you for sharing your deepest heart.

[@leilaniford3574]

A measure by what she's left with her children.

[@taehyunjeoung1334]

I'd like to share this St. Gertrude Prayer. "Eternal Father, I offer You the most Precious Blood of Your Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen." I love Ralph Fiennes, though I love Jesus above all things.

[@user-jp5ip6qb5b]

I say this here. The number of the Holy souls in purgatory has increased. We must keep on praying. I hate evil. I love angel ❤ Sabina

[@user-wf6ym5ke7f]

Переведите ролик на русский язык , я так люблю. этого актёра .!

[@GrettaSunshine]

Да, было бы отлично.

[@user-ku4sx1zm8e]

Да, переведите, очень прошу.В этих прекрасных людях что-то щемящее, очень русское, этот фильм как прощание с веком.

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

Her father sounds difficult. Choosing to not argue while there is chaos around you and remove yourself like that might be fine for you and be okay if you were a single man but if you have a family, you need to pull your weight. makes me sick.

[@user-jp5ip6qb5b]

St. Michael the Archangel, Pray for us. St. Clare Pray for us. ❤ Sabina

[@nesaalli8778]

I was in the R A F I was radar operator I actually made the machine for years xx

[@jm3356]

[@tbhly]

14:55

[@user-jp5ip6qb5b]

I so miss, this is what I do. What beautiful experiences that I had today. According to the liturgical Calendar. Not that of the shismatics. I love my church and if it is not of my Lord's. You kill me. ❤ Sabina

[@Iheartdgd]

Wtf he looks just like Liam Neeson

[@detectivefiction3701]

There is a resemblance, though Ralph is quite a bit shorter and smaller boned than Liam is. Both are handsome men.

[@tanyamcgrath1627]

Nope they are different!

[@user-jp5ip6qb5b]

St. Joan of Arc Pray for us. ❤ Sabina

[@carolinegodden4364]

What was done to Jennifer, a lot of us are,all grown up, AND we will commence to deal with it all. Our My heart breaks for this wonderful lady. There is a song I'll Stand by you.

[@user-jp5ip6qb5b]

I love, God. I love English landscapes. I love good work. People, l promise to tell you today that the number of the Holy souls in purgatory has increased or outnumbered that much, I am telling you to pray with me, daily, or too. ❤ Sabina

[@gray_day4375]

Is it just me surprised her brother being Orthodox priest???

[@lolab56]

Ralph Fiennes has never won an Oscar. Again, this shows the how stupid the Oscar voters are!

[@user-jp5ip6qb5b]

Baptism leads you to the Holy Communion. The Pope is infallible. ❤ Sabina

[@jujujj63]

Hes 8th cousin to king Charles. Elite money makes you a movie star.

[@GjpgrD]

In this case, great talent does.

[@marjanp4784]

Are you delusional? Ralph Fiennes is one of the greatest actors of all time. It comes from talent, not money.

[@racheljennings1688]

And hard work

[@ianwilliam3811]

Pity this prat never mentions the air stewardess he got pregnant and denied any knowledge of it.

[@darhug1968a]

He had a one night stand with an air stewardess. She said she might be pregnant in order to get the papers interested in buying her story. She was not pregnant. She also later admitted to working as a prostitute so probably slept with him just to make money selling the story - which she did.

[@cheekysmith8559]

Ha - are you kidding.??... She pounced on him like like a fat kid on a cupcake lol. She was working, and had sex with him in the plane toilet, which she initiated!!! Nice...And then sold her story........... No need to be jealous. And yes, she made up the pregnancy.

[@kirkalbuquerquekirkland5144]

Woow amazing thank you so much for uploading 👍👍 soo interesting and lovely

[@wocomoCULTURE]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!