For his second feature film, the Corsican director set up his cameras in several regions of the island of beauty. The storyline follows the pressures the mafia puts on a goat breeder.
The Aléria gendarmerie attacked by hooded demonstrators, police officers who respond with tear gas grenades, shouts of anger, this very realistic sequence is in fact only a fictional scene. The extras take part in the filming of the next film of Frederic Farrucci.
The director has just finished filming his second film, A Mohican. And it’s at home, in Corsica, that all the action takes place.
Filming the Mohican in Corsica
Film shooting the Mohican in Corsica – (France 3 Corse / P. Salort / E. Giugliano / S. Regoli)
The story ofA Mohican tells of the pressures that the Corsican mafia puts on a shepherd to recover his land and transform it into a real estate project. The universal battle of the pot of earth against the pot of iron anchored on the island territory and shot in the style of a contemporary western. “It’s the story of a man who says ‘no’ in relation to the ambient movement, in relation to the evolution of our society. He doesn’t have a political speech, he just says ‘no, that doesn’t’ is not possible for me’”, explains director Frédéric Farrucci.
The issues of speculation and mafia pressure recur throughout the film. For the director, dealing with current issues constitutes the very essence of the 7th art. “It is the role of cinema to address societal issues. If there is not a political imprint in cinema, it does not interest me. For me, treating contemporary Corsica is something essential in this fiction”, he…