Whether at the center of family strife, geopolitical conflicts, or internal ramblings, this week’s outings immerse us in turbulent worlds. The KingdomJulien Colonna’s passionate first film traces the intimate thread of political violence that shook the history of Corsica. In remember a cityfilmmaker and editor Jean-Gabriel Périot reactivates the memory of Sarajevo thanks to unpublished archive images of the 1992 siege. Finally, E.1027. Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea It transports us to the world of modernist architecture, revealing a plunder.
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“The Kingdom”: island vendetta
Corsica in the cinema generally takes place between laughter and weapons, two antagonistic manifestations of violence, an expression that the insular spirit does not disdain to cultivate. The KingdomJulien Colonna’s captivating first feature film clearly falls into the second category and its novelty lies in revealing an impressive director. Its name evokes the last great legend of island banditry, Jean-Jérôme Colonna, fatally “accidented” in 2006, of whom Julien is none other than the son.
This is the story of a father and his daughter. Lesia, the daughter, is urgently repatriated by Pierre-Paul, her father, to an isolated village, after the murder of a politician close to the clan. Kept away from her father’s activities, she initially understands nothing about it.
The clan, a group of tough and bloodthirsty guys, tries to find out where the blows are coming from, but the men fall one after another. Cornered, its members separate. You have to move every day, feel the threat, avoid the worst.
Constantly inventive, brilliantly suggestive, the staging tells us that fear is precisely what we do not see. J.Ma.
“The Kingdom”, French film by Julien Colonna. With Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti, Frédéric Poggi, Andrea Cossu (1h51).
“Remembering a city”: putting the archives to the test
A high-floor apartment in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In front of the window, a group of young people, off-screen, comment on the shots that fall on the building opposite. These images were filmed in the spring of 1992, by Nedim Alikadic, when the Sarajevians discovered, to their dismay, the situation: their city was bombed by the Serbs and they could no longer escape. The siege would last four years (until February 29, 1996).
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