Zum ersten Mal vergibt das Internationale Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg am 14. November den „Young Actors Award“. Zusammen mit dem Festivalprogramm wurden heute die drei Kandidaten bekannt gegeben.
Nominiert für den Young Actors Award: Ghjuvanna Benedetti in „The Kingdom“ (Credit: Chi-Fou-Mi Productions)
Das Internationale Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Iffmh) hat heute zusammen mit dem Programm für seine von 7. bis 17. November stattfindende 73. Ausgabe die Nominierten für den Young Audience Award bekannt gegeben. Der Schauspielpreis, der am 14. November zum ersten Mal verliehen wird, wird über alle Sektionen hinweg – mit Ausnahme der Retrospektive – vergeben und ist mit 10.000 Euro dotiert.
Nominiert sind Ghjuvanna Benedetti für ihre Rolle als Tochter eines korsischen Clanbosses im Wettbewerbsfilm „The Kingdom“, Ariella Mastroianni für die Darstellung einer jungen Frau, die an Blackouts leidet und sich auf einen tückischen Deal einlässt, in einem weiteren Wettbewerbsfillm, „Gazer“, zu dem sie zusammen mit Regisseur Ryan J. Sloan auch das Drehbuch geschrieben hat, und Laura Weissmahr für ihre...
Nominiert für den Young Actors Award: Ghjuvanna Benedetti in „The Kingdom“ (Credit: Chi-Fou-Mi Productions)
Das Internationale Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Iffmh) hat heute zusammen mit dem Programm für seine von 7. bis 17. November stattfindende 73. Ausgabe die Nominierten für den Young Audience Award bekannt gegeben. Der Schauspielpreis, der am 14. November zum ersten Mal verliehen wird, wird über alle Sektionen hinweg – mit Ausnahme der Retrospektive – vergeben und ist mit 10.000 Euro dotiert.
Nominiert sind Ghjuvanna Benedetti für ihre Rolle als Tochter eines korsischen Clanbosses im Wettbewerbsfilm „The Kingdom“, Ariella Mastroianni für die Darstellung einer jungen Frau, die an Blackouts leidet und sich auf einen tückischen Deal einlässt, in einem weiteren Wettbewerbsfillm, „Gazer“, zu dem sie zusammen mit Regisseur Ryan J. Sloan auch das Drehbuch geschrieben hat, und Laura Weissmahr für ihre...
- 10/17/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
An incisive look into the mafia’s presence in Corsica, Julien Colonna’s “The Kingdom” is an even-handed debut, filtering a war between rival gangs through the prism of a coming-of-age narrative. While well aware of the tropes associated with mafia films, Colonna’s decision to place his point of view alongside Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti in her first role) creates a fascinating window into connections between real and created families.
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- 5/29/2024
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
“Why do they want to kill you?” At 15, Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti) is still daddy’s girl. She knows but doesn’t want to know the answer to her question, just as she has always known what Pierre-Paul (Saveriu Santucci) does for a living — a very good living — but doesn’t acknowledge it to herself. “Money. Power. You don’t talk to these kinds of people,” her father shrugs. You wouldn’t want to talk to him either, not without an invitation.
Julien Colonna’s robust story of Corsican rule by the Mob is set in the ’90s, when the island was so thick with revenge killings that they were a nightly news feature. 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...
Julien Colonna’s robust story of Corsican rule by the Mob is set in the ’90s, when the island was so thick with revenge killings that they were a nightly news feature. 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...
- 5/27/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights to writer-director Julien Colonna’s The Kingdom after the film’s world premiere this week in the Cannes festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
Metrograph is planning a theatrical release at a date yet to be announced.
The film, Colonna’s narrative feature debut, centres on a teenager (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who reconnects with her local mob boss father on the island of Corsica and goes on the run from other mobsters and the police.
Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon produced for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and Goodfellas is handling sales.
Metrograph head David Laub...
Metrograph is planning a theatrical release at a date yet to be announced.
The film, Colonna’s narrative feature debut, centres on a teenager (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who reconnects with her local mob boss father on the island of Corsica and goes on the run from other mobsters and the police.
Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon produced for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and Goodfellas is handling sales.
Metrograph head David Laub...
- 5/21/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Following a buzzy debut this week at the Cannes Film Festival, Parisian-based filmmaker Julien Colonna’s debut feature The Kingdom has been picked up by Metrograph Pictures, who will release the film in North America.
The Kingdom screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar and has been widely touted on the ground in Cannes as a surprising festival standout. Metrograph Pictures has said it will distribute the film theatrically, with additional release details to be announced later.
Set over one sweltering summer on the French island of Corsica, The Kingdom follows a Corsican mob family on the run. The central character is Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti), a teenager who reconnects with her father, Pierre-Paul, a local mob boss in hiding. As Pierre-Paul’s crimes catch up with him, the two go on the run from both mobsters and the police, forging an increasingly close-knit bond that will ultimately...
The Kingdom screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar and has been widely touted on the ground in Cannes as a surprising festival standout. Metrograph Pictures has said it will distribute the film theatrically, with additional release details to be announced later.
Set over one sweltering summer on the French island of Corsica, The Kingdom follows a Corsican mob family on the run. The central character is Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti), a teenager who reconnects with her father, Pierre-Paul, a local mob boss in hiding. As Pierre-Paul’s crimes catch up with him, the two go on the run from both mobsters and the police, forging an increasingly close-knit bond that will ultimately...
- 5/21/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
At first, the violence seems limited to news reports. Every time a gangster is gunned down or a car bomb goes off in the streets of Corsica, the local channel flashes footage of the crime scene. So long as the killings are confined to television, it’s easy for 15-year-old Lesia to pretend they’re neither real nor relevant, that the people involved aren’t members of her father’s inner circle. But as “The Kingdom” unfolds, the attacks keep getting closer, slowly infiltrating the film itself, until finally, they’re happening right in front of her face.
Corsica, like nearby Sicily, has a serious problem with organized crime, which escalated dramatically in the 1990s, when “The Kingdom” is set. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, it’s an unusual island: technically part of France, but too independent-minded to let outsiders manage its affairs. The Corsican flag depicts a decapitated Moorish...
Corsica, like nearby Sicily, has a serious problem with organized crime, which escalated dramatically in the 1990s, when “The Kingdom” is set. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, it’s an unusual island: technically part of France, but too independent-minded to let outsiders manage its affairs. The Corsican flag depicts a decapitated Moorish...
- 5/20/2024
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
One of the finest films ever made about organized crime, “The Long Good Friday” (1980) sees the world of a London gangster abruptly destabilized by bomb attacks and murders of his associates. He and his henchmen attempt to uncover the attackers’ identities, all whilst trying not to worry their visitors in town for the weekend, who are members of the American mafia looking to invest in redevelopment in the area. This British mob classic may seem an odd film to evoke up top in a review of a French-language, Corsica-set debut feature. But one of the main strengths of director Julien Colonna’s “The Kingdom” is how it successfully pulls off a loosely similar, paranoia-driven fall-of-an-empire story within the context of a condensed time period.
The time frame in question is not quite as tight as “The Long Good Friday’s” 24-ish hours of mayhem, but instead a few weeks of...
The time frame in question is not quite as tight as “The Long Good Friday’s” 24-ish hours of mayhem, but instead a few weeks of...
- 5/20/2024
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- Indiewire
The shadow of The Godfather looms large over French director Julien Colonna’s formidable feature debut, The Kingdom (Le Royaume), and not only because one of the characters in it is literally called “Godfather.”
Set in Corsica in 1995, at a time when the island was wracked by warfare among nationalist groups and crime families, the film focuses on one mafioso clan that’s beset by enemies on all sides and needs to survive by any means necessary. The head of that clan is a very casually dressed Don Corleone named Pierre-Paul (Saveriu Santucci), and he needs to both preserve his leadership and protect his teenage daughter, Lesia (the illuminating Ghjuvanna Benedetti), as they run from cops and mobsters alike.
So yes, it’s a very Godfather-like scenario — but it’s as if the Coppola classic were told from the viewpoint of a young Connie, chronicling how a girl on the...
Set in Corsica in 1995, at a time when the island was wracked by warfare among nationalist groups and crime families, the film focuses on one mafioso clan that’s beset by enemies on all sides and needs to survive by any means necessary. The head of that clan is a very casually dressed Don Corleone named Pierre-Paul (Saveriu Santucci), and he needs to both preserve his leadership and protect his teenage daughter, Lesia (the illuminating Ghjuvanna Benedetti), as they run from cops and mobsters alike.
So yes, it’s a very Godfather-like scenario — but it’s as if the Coppola classic were told from the viewpoint of a young Connie, chronicling how a girl on the...
- 5/20/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Un Certain Regard is always a time to explore new, daring films from first- and second-time feature filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival. They’ll eventually be eligible for the Camera d’Or, the Un Certain Regard equivalent of the Palme d’Or. So if you’re looking for something to see outside the main competition at Cannes this year, Julien Colonna’s Un Certain Regard entry is a simmering and intense coming-of-age story about a teenage girl coming of age amid a criminal family. And that family is maybe one she doesn’t want to reconnect with but is forced to over one summer in Corsica, 1995. Watch an IndieWire exclusive clip from the film below.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father,...
Here’s the official synopsis: “Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Goodfellas has boarded Julien Colonna’s father-daughter coming-of-age thriller Le Royaume ahead of the film’s world premiere in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
The debut feature is set in Corsica in summer 1995 and follows a teenage girl (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who discovers her father (Saveriu Santucci) in hiding in an isolated villa with his clan of men. As war breaks out in the underworld, the noose tightens around the clan and death strikes. Forced to go on the run, the father-daughter duo must learn to understand and love each other.
The film is produced by Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon at Mediawan-owned Chi-Fou-Mi,...
The debut feature is set in Corsica in summer 1995 and follows a teenage girl (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who discovers her father (Saveriu Santucci) in hiding in an isolated villa with his clan of men. As war breaks out in the underworld, the noose tightens around the clan and death strikes. Forced to go on the run, the father-daughter duo must learn to understand and love each other.
The film is produced by Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon at Mediawan-owned Chi-Fou-Mi,...
- 4/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
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