FILMTAGE DES MITTELMEERES: Thierry de Peretti: À son image / In His Own Image

FR 2024, D: Thierry de Peretti, 110 minutes, with Clara-Maria Laredo, Marc-Antonu Mozziconacci, Louis Starace, Antonia Buresi, Victoire Du Bois, Alexis Manenti, franc. Original with English subtitles

Garten des Völkerkundemuseums vPST, Hauptstraße 235, 69117 Heidelberg

Admission €12, reduced €9, members of Medienforum €8, advance ticket sales online: www.filmtagemittelmeer.de

Corsica, early 1980s: Antonia works as a photographer Corsica, early 1980s: Antonia works as a photographer for the Corse-Matin, a newspaper based in Ajaccio. The île de Beauté is in turmoil between nationalist groups striving for independence and mafia clans fighting a real war for sole rule. Against her will, Antonia is drawn into the unrest by Pascal, her shady partner. Over the course of more than three decades, the young woman’s involvement, friendships and love affairs become intertwined with the major events in the island’s political history … The film adaptation of Jérôme Ferrari’s novel of the same name is the fresco of a generation. Thierry de Peretti, who grew up in Ajaccio, is an actor, theater and film director. He began directing films in 2005. His first two feature-length films Les Apaches (2013) and Une vie violente (2017), which are also the problems for the Corse-Matin, a newspaper based in Ajaccio. The île de Beauté is in turmoil between nationalist groups seeking independence and mafia clans engaged in a veritable war for sole rule. Against her will, Antonia is drawn into the unrest by Pascal, her shady partner. Over the course of more than three decades, the young woman’s involvement, friendships and love affairs become intertwined with the major events in the island’s political history … The film adaptation of Jérôme Ferrari’s novel of the same name is the fresco of a generation. Thierry de Peretti, who grew up in Ajaccio, is an actor, theater and film director. He began directing films in 2005. His first two feature-length films Les Apaches (2013) and Une vie violente (2017), which also deal with the problems of nationalism and how young people deal with it in Corsica, were shown at our Film Days.