On the island of Corsica in the summer of 1995, the teenage Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti) is taken from her sheltered life to a remote villa where her fugitive mob boss father Pierre-Paul (Saveriu Santucci) is hiding out. The pair barely know each other, but when an assassination attempt sets a chain of bloody vendettas in motion, Lesia and Paul-Pierre are forced to go on the run.
Although not Italian or American based, this is yet another mob movie. It is different from the norm though, in that a lot of violence takes place off screen with Julien Colonna and Jeanne Herry’s story concentrating much more on the father-daughter dynamic. Colonna’s direction nicely captures the stifling heat of the Corsican summer, keeping things on a low simmer as Pierre-Paul’s inevitable demise approaches.
That predictably stops this being amongst the best gangster movies despite both Benedetti and Santucci being excellent.
Rating: 7 out of 10