The Legacy

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Audience Member L'héritage is the story about three french tourists in Georgia, where one of them has inherited an old caste. The french foreigners finds out that Georgia is a place filed with cooks and the same laws and norms isn't what they are used to. On the two days bus trip they meet all kinds of different personalities. A deaf merchant is among the passengers. Also there's an old man and his grandson who's carries an empty burial coffin, that they gonna use to bury the old man in after he's been killed because of a deal with another family that says that each family shall have the same rate of deaths as the others, and by killing the grandfather they are even. L'héritage catches some of the same rustic elements as in Borat, but it's now taken seriously. The characters doesn't seems like caricatures nor stereotypes of former soviet villagers as they wear portrayed in Borat. It's a interesting, but it could have gone even deeper, specially considering the offbeat ending. The movie feels slow, and some times don't use it's potentials, but I like the concept and the characters. So my thumbs is up. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review walter m In "The Legacy," Patricia(Sylvie Testud) is in Tbilisi, Georgia to look into her inheritance which she learns is little more than a ruin but decides to take a look anyway with her friends Jean(Stanislas Merhar) and Celine(Olga Legrand) filming the process. Since it would be kind to call the car of their interpreter and guide Nikolai(Pascal Bongard) a jalopy, they will have to take a bus for two days to get there. The journey is uneventful until a conversation with a young man(Giorgi Babluani) occurs where Patricia hears something that she does not quite comprehend at first... "The Legacy" is a simple story, yet also deceptive in that it's not really about the characters we thought it was, almost lulling the viewers into a false calm before the story gets to a critical point and everything changes. That structure works well with the movie's central theme of westerners blindly stumbling into a situation that they do not understand and, no matter how wrong it may seem, are warned against interfering. Actually, there is foreshadowing of this early on when Jean gets into a fight which leads to Nikolai being injured, without having thought everything through first. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member ForsÃ¥vidt en interessant historie, men det hjelper sÃ¥ lite nÃ¥r personene er karakterløse og spenningskurven paddeflat. Igjen det franske filmsprÃ¥ket som holder deg pÃ¥ en armlengdes avstand fra personene i historien. Den vekker rett og slett ikke en eneste følelse, og da er det for meg bortkastet tid. Jeg fÃ¥r si som Brita Møystad Engseth; "Life is too short for french films". Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Refreshingly different kind of movie but in the same time a critique of human nature: how revenge (here vendetta) never ends but goes on through the generations. The movie also shows vividly the clash of different cultures. Something magic in this movie but still something clearly missing (to my mind). Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I read all the reviews saying this was a slow, tiresome film. Turns out - it ain't. The pace is indeed slow, but there were loads of details and silent exchanges to grab my imagination. And the theme itself lends well to the plot: what happens when you interfere with a culture that you don't understand. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member didn't got it 13 was better Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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