“Kingdom“Reigned on A certain look at Cannes 2024Where it premiered as a sales title before he was acquired by Metrograph Pictures. The critically acclaimed “anti-gangster film“As a writer/director Julien Colonna It is described, shockingly marks a series of first for its role and crew: “The Kingdom” is Colonna’s narrative debut (he earlier 2019 helped “Luo Yang’s girls”) and leads stars Ghjuvanna Benedetti and Saveriu Santucis first times.
Benedetti plays Lesia, a teenager in 1995 Corsica who has to help his father Pierre-Paul (Savereriu Santucci) escape from the mob he used to lead. The official synopsis reads: “One day, a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hides, surrounded by her clan. An underworking wars outbreak. Noet tightens around them. Death. Death.
“The Kingdom”, however, is not a mob film: The Colonna instead tried to rore a movie that abandoned “the violence” found in real Corsica while at the same time the dichotomized uprising of organized crime with meadows with being a teenage girl in a patriarchal society.
“Through this movie, I want to show the machines for thug rule in their inevitable programmed extinction. These men are neither healed nor sacred; on the contrary, said those as the penitents in their own lives, the ghosts of those who are already dead but do not yet know it,” Colonna said in a press release. “Lesia’s fear of seeing her father die at any time, powerless before the male violence imposed on her, before the carefree childhood that slides away from her.” The storytelling perspective is from the level of a child in a man’s environment. The point is at the same time as being immense but still distanced and depicting a sparkly relationship as an attempt to exist, to survive everything clearly. I have placed the classic genre film plot-military chess board, The War of Clans and Territories-In the background I wanted to create a space to see something else to live up: a story about the consequences of these marginal lives, a more truthful reflection of an environment that is too often treated and thus to say out the borders in an anti-border in an anti-border in an anti-border in an anti-border in an anti-border in an anti-border.
Colonna directed the film from a script as he cowrote with Jeanne Herry. Hugo Sélignac and Antoine Lafon Produce.
The Indieview review For the “Kingdom” noted how the film mapped “gradually transformed an innocent child into an accessory to violence, forced to become increasingly pragmatic and calling on the road” a completely “new hook” into a crime film that makes the function a “riveting, moving” film.
“Kingdom” premieres May 30 in theaters in NY and LA with a national expansion to follow from Metrograph Pictures. Check out the trailer below.
