
The Big Country
1958


89 votes
Lesia, a teenager, is taken by a man to a villa where her fugitive father and his men are hiding. A war erupts, leading to death and a chase where father and daughter bond.
Director
Julien ColonnaWriters
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$1.0M
Production Companies

It’s not often that you get a plausible gangster movie told from the perspective of a fifteen year old girl, but here Ghjuvanna Benedetti delivers a really personable performance as the young “Lesia”. She lives on Corsica with her aunt, has a boyfriend and leads a fairly normal teenager’s life. That is, until she is summoned to meet her dad in a luxury villa. Once she arrives, it becomes clear that she and “Pierre-Paul” (Saveriu Santucci) are fairly close and that much of their distance in their relationship is necessitated by the fact that he is the local “Don”. Along with a few loyal family…
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