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Elena's Gift

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Original title

Le cadeau d'Elena

Year

2004

Running time

89 min.

Country

France

Director

Frederic Graziani

Screenwriter

Danièle Giorico, Frederic Graziani

Cast

Music

Ilona Sekacz

Cinematography

Antoine Heberlé

Producer

Co-production France-United Kingdom;

Cine Nomine, Zepel Films Ltd, Zephyr Films, Wild Bunch

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

After an absense of 30 years, Socrates decides to return to Corsica with his son, Antoine, to visit his family. But painful secrets re-emerge, affecting both father and son. Socrates returns to the island, his homeland, to spend a few days. Socrates has emotional reunions with old friends in Bastia and moves into his sister’s place with Antoine. But his highly-awaited return stirs up trouble when one of the friends with whom Socrates hooks up is attacked by mysterious assailants. The only clue is a lighter, engraved with Socrates’s date of birth and initials. No one recognizes the lighter, but it seems to be linked to an old family secret. Simultaneously, Antoine discovers Corsica and its inhabitants that he still finds difficult to grasp because of his engrained prejudices about them. Antoine tries to understand his father’s exil and reticence to talk about the place. He comes up against a wall of silence. It’s in this state of frustration that he falls in love with Marie. In the island’s silence, family secrets take on the form of narrow, snaking mountain tracks.

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Elena's Gift

2004

Frederic Graziani