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Our review of Kingdom, once upon a time a strange kingdom

2023-02-09T12:26:49.459Z


REVIEW – At Ateliers Berthier, this adaptation of a film by Clément Cogitore around a family living in autarky in Siberia. A confusing sight.


Impossible to forget the decor of

Kingdom

, without doubt one of the most impressive of the 75th Festival d'Avignon.

A leafy wood, a log cabin and its small outbuilding.

In front of the audience flows a river.

We are immersed in a taiga.

On the courtyard side, a wooden palisade, behind which we guess inhabitants that we will never see.

"

 Invisible enemies 

" that give free rein to all fantasies.

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 The neighbours, they shoot at everything that moves, they have no limit.

The taiga does not support it 

,” says the father.

Patriarch of the family, who lives in autarky.

We guess two tribes as angry as the Montagues and the Capulets.

Misunderstandings and misunderstandings have accumulated.

Renewing the dialogue seems impossible.

Anne-Cécile Vandalem, 43, was freely inspired by

Braguino or the Impossible Community

, Clément Cogitore's documentary film about a family of "

 Old Believers 

" isolated in a Siberian forest to create a strange and captivating spectacle...

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