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 though 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.” (Christian Palligiano)