Le Legs

Our ancestors and their history, a house with objects that have come down to us through the years, a past that is part of our daily lives. How does all this shape us ? What do we owe to family roots, whether or not we are aware of it ? “This film arose out of my trying to understand why I was so attached to Corsica even through I was not born there. How was it that, over time and as a result of sporadic yet deep periods of immersion there, I had come to identify myself with an isolated valley in the south of the island to such an extent that I was even contemplating spending my last days there ? And how had these close ties grown to finally become an inescapable part of me ? Writing and making this film meant drawing on my memories, my first amateur films and the family photograph album.”