Un Sure Regard is at all times a time to discover new, daring movies from first- and second-time characteristic filmmakers on the Cannes Movie Pageant. They’ll finally be eligible for the Digital camera d’Or, the Un Sure Regard equal of the Palme d’Or. So if you happen to’re on the lookout for one thing to see exterior the primary competitors at Cannes this 12 months, Julien Colonna’s Un Sure Regard entry is a simmering and intense coming-of-age story a couple of teenage lady coming of age amid a prison household. And that household is possibly one she doesn’t wish to reconnect with however is pressured to over one summer time in Corsica, 1995. Watch an IndieWire unique clip from the movie beneath.
Right here’s the official synopsis: “Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer time as a youngster. At some point a person bursts into her life and takes her to an remoted villa the place she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld warfare erupts. The noose is tightening round them. Loss of life strikes. Compelled to go on the run, father and daughter will study to face each other, to know and love one another.”
Colonna directs first-time actors together with Ghjuvanna Benedetti as Lesia, together with Saveriu Santucci, and Anthony Morganti. “The Kingdom,” or “Le Royaume” in French, is Colonna’s second characteristic after directing shorts and episodics and the 2019 documentary “Luo Yang’s Ladies,” about Chinese language youth tradition.
Benedetti is a outstanding presence on this darkish drama that blends crime style components with an intimate story of a younger lady coming into her personal. Colonna units the movie in Corsica, in that exact 12 months, because of the political crossroads on the island at the moment, as nationalist clashed with the prison clans doing enterprise there. Towards this backdrop, we see Lesia attempting to like her father regardless of the harmful path he’s on and unwilling to depart.
Extra from Colonna’s press assertion in regards to the movie: “‘The Kingdom’s’ narrative perspective is from the extent of a kid in a person’s surroundings. The viewpoint is concurrently immersive but distanced and depicts a filial relationship attempting to exist, to outlive in a context the place all the pieces dies. The characters’ emotional points might be seen extra clearly as I’ve positioned the basic style movie plot — the navy chessboard, the warfare of clans and territories — within the background. I wished to create an area through which to see one thing else come alive: a narrative in regards to the penalties of those marginal lives, a extra truthful reflection of an surroundings that’s too usually handled fantastically, and thus to stake out the boundaries of an anti-gangster movie.”
“The Kingdom” is at the moment searching for U.S. distribution out of the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant. Goodfellas is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
