The great Corsican film of 2024
Director Thierry de Peretti, born in Corsica, films his native island like no other. Actor, director and producer, it is this land that he has brilliantly narrated in his first two feature films The Apaches AND A violent life. After a detour in 2022 to the “continent” for the extraordinary investigative film Investigation into a State Scandalcome back there this year with Like his appearanceadaptation of the novel by the writer Jérôme Ferrari published in 2018.
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer from Corsica-Matin in Ajaccio. Her commitment, her friends, her loves then mix with the major events of the island’s political history, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the fresco of a generation.
A high-level dramatic thriller
Collective tragedy of a territory mixed with the intimate destiny of a young woman in love, Like his appearance made waves at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival where it was presented in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section. The trailer revealed (video at the top of the article) already shows the excellence with which Thierry de Peretti has acquired the habit of blurring the boundary between reality and fiction, developing a film in which documentary material is exploited with the codes of the detective novel. For a result that is always unique.
The magnificent light of these images, the performances of a cast composed mainly of local and non-professional actors, the softness of a welcoming landscape strongly contrasted by its violent history… Like The kingdom by Julien Colonna, another “Corsican” film noticed at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight, Like his appearance He thus creates portraits of individuals and a fascinating society, in an unmissable cinematic gesture. September 4, 2024the day of its release in theaters.
Source: Cine Serie
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