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)
Contemporary issues in Corsica
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 assures.
Play a mobster
To play the leading roles of Mohican, Frédéric Farrucci chose to call on actors who know Corsica well. The actor Alexis Manenti (Wretched, The rapture) plays the threatened shepherd. Opposite him, Théo Frimigacci plays a merciless mafioso. “It obviously speaks to me because I was born in Corsica, I have always worked in Corsica. I just wanted there to be no ambiguity about the fact that my character was really a bastard. I would not have “I didn’t want to play a character who could make young people want to be like him or who would give the impression that it wasn’t that big of a deal to be like him.” explains Théo Frimigacci. In the cast we will also find Mara Taquin (currently on screens in The little), Michel Ferracci and many Corsican actors.
For six weeks, the filming mobilized around sixty Corsican technicians and actors. Now it’s time for editing and post-production. The film A Mohican should be released in theaters in 2024.
With this second feature film, the director distinguished at the Césars in 2021 for Night Coming could once again mark the public and the critics.