‘Homecoming’ Review: A Summer Holiday Stirs Memories And Mischief In Catherine Corsini’s Latest Cannes Entry
17.05.2023 - 22:43
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There is the good sister, with A grades, university prospects and a sense of decorum in company. And then there is the younger sister who can’t see a volume button without turning up the music, who is quick to complain or pick an argument, who spots someone else’s drug stash and thinks she could steal it and maybe make some pocket money selling deals on the beach, because what – what – could possibly go wrong with that plan?
And yet Farah (Esther Gohourou) can always make Jessica (Suzy Bemba) laugh. She can even persuade her to climb over a wall to swim in someone else’s pool because, in the end, where’s the harm? They are nothing alike, but they fit together like Legos.
Catherine Corsini’s Cannes competition entry Homecoming (Le Retour) borrows some key elements from the director’s own life. Like the girls in the film, her father was Corsican and died when she was very small; like them, she returned when she was 15, dreaming of making films as she knew her father had wanted to do. Unlike Corsini’s mother, however, Khedidja (Aissatou Diallo Sagna: a warm, vivid maternal goddess) comes originally from West Africa.
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When Khedidja is hired as a child-minder by a French family on holiday in the village where she lived after her marriage, she decides to take her daughters with her; the suggestion is that while she is clearly ambivalent about all things Corsican, they should be able to experience something of their father’s heritage. She never felt she fitted in there, she says in one of the confessional speeches that start to tumble through the mix at the end of the film. It seems a thin explanation for her decision to leave the man she seemingly loved in abundance and head into
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