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‘The Kingdom’ Review: Julien Colonna’s Corsican Father-Daughter Mob Drama Is An Understated Epic – Cannes Film Festival
‘The Kingdom’ review: Julien Colonna's Corsican father-daughter mob drama is an understated epic – Cannes Film Festival
As The Kingdom opens, there has been peace between the Corsican crime families for years, but the eruption of a car bomb aimed at the president, who also happens to be Pierre-Paul’s closest friend, is a warning that this respite is over: another clan is making a run for their share of the extortion, drug and dock rackets. Audrey Ismael’s hard-edged droning score helps to sustain the necessary tension, while the sheer complexity of the clans, where everyone is related and various cousins and uncles disappear or turn out to be traitors at a bewildering rate, means that nothing ever feels settled, setting a restless narrative pace. It isn’t glamorous, but it does look glorious: outside the expensively tasteless villa is the Corsican countryside, drenched in sun that plays into purple shadows and filtered golden light.
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