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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A long-standing dispute between two families comes to a strange resolution in this offbeat drama. Celine (Olga Legrand) is a twenty-something woman from Paris who receives word that she has inherited an aging castle in the Georgian village of Tblisi. Curious about the estate that's now hers, Celine and her friends Patricia (Sylvie Testud) and Jean (Stanislas Merhar) travel to Georgia to give it a look, but getting there proves difficult, and they're forced by circumstance to make most of the trip by bus. Sharing the bus with them are an elderly man (Leo Gaparidze) and his grandson (Giorgi Babluani), who are carrying a coffin with them. Celine and her friends learn that the coffin is empty, but won't be for long -- as part of a truce between two families who have been feuding for centuries, the old man has agreed to be executed by members of the enemy clan. At once appalled and fascinated, Jean wants to tag along and capture the grim event on film, but the journey turns out to be more dangerous than expected, and matters take an unexpected turn when the grandfather dies of natural causes before he can be hanged. L'Heritage (aka The Legacy) was a collaboration between two award-winning filmmakers, Gela Babluani and his father Temur Babluani. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Sundance Film Festival, ...The Legacy ( L'héritage )
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
We all know there is no substitute for inventive ideas, and we so wanted Avatar to be good didn't we? But in our hearts we knew it was going to be, well, what is is. I bet they could make 100 films like The Legacy for the budget of the average CGI blockbuster. Wish they would. Nothing but quality ideas in this wonderful film!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A short, beautifully shot, deceptively simple film about a blood feud in Georgia (Eastern Europe not the Deep South of America!) witnessed by French tourists who try to help but just succeed in making things a lot worse.
Some reviewers in the USA complained about wooden acting (i.e. no over-acting) and the slowness of the film (no high-speed car chases) - which is quite ironic given that a major theme of the film is the way in which Western culture (often with the best of intentions) fails to understand/respect what it isn't familiar with.
An ending that makes you think, and overall, a film that will prey on your mind for quite a while.
highly recommended - unless you can't see beyond Tarantino and also recommended is this film by the same director13 Tzameti [DVD] [2006]
Some reviewers in the USA complained about wooden acting (i.e. no over-acting) and the slowness of the film (no high-speed car chases) - which is quite ironic given that a major theme of the film is the way in which Western culture (often with the best of intentions) fails to understand/respect what it isn't familiar with.
An ending that makes you think, and overall, a film that will prey on your mind for quite a while.
highly recommended - unless you can't see beyond Tarantino and also recommended is this film by the same director13 Tzameti [DVD] [2006]
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