THE KINGDOM Trailer: A Teen Girl & Her Mobster Father Bond in Julien Colonna’s Riveting Debut

French writer-director Julien Colonna has made an edge-of-your-seat coming-of-age tale with his feature debut, The Kingdom. The mob thriller had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. It stars Ghjuvanna Benedetti as a teenage girl in 1990s Corsica who reunites with her fugitive mob boss father (Saveriu Santucci) as an underworld war erupts around them. Based on Colonna’s personal experiences, the film was nominated for the César for Best First Film. Metrograph Pictures will release it in U.S. theaters May 30.

Here’s the official synopsis:

On the pale, sun-soaked island of Corsica in the summer of 1995, the teenage Lesia is plucked from her sheltered life, and taken to a remote villa where her fugitive mob boss father, Pierre-Paul, is hiding out. Pierre Paul is a menacing figure, a near stranger to Lesia, and at first she feels trapped by the secrecy and danger which defines his life. But when an assassination attempt sets a chain of bloody vendettas in motion, Lesia and Paul-Pierre are forced to go on the run together. As they flee, Lesia becomes closer than ever with her father, and as they wade together through the violent underworld which he is entrenched in, his devotion to revenge begins to rub off on her. The Kingdom is a story of blood: blood split, blood sought, and the blood which binds us.

Check out the U.S. trailer and poster below.

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