First of all… what a great movie! I had been sitting on Julien Colonna’s debut feature, The Kingdom, for quite a while, but I finally found the time this week to tidy up the subtitles for French, and add them for Corsican. Although not perfect, they were pretty damn good, if I do say so myself! Everything was understood. Or was it?

One scene sparked a lively post movie debate over slices of banana bread. I was adamant that the scene was a flashback, but now I’m not so sure! Here’s the scene:

A newborn. Is it Lesia?. If so, it would have been about 1980. The slow pan from baby to mom clearly shows that the woman could be Lesia’s (now late in 1995) mother. There were at least two mentions of how much now 15 year old Lesia looks like her mother. The shot continues with baby taken into dad’s arms. Dad looks a lot like 1995 Santu here. His hair is darker though, and his beard is bushy like Lesia’s papa, Pierre-Paul, who had just been telling her how the time around her birth had been the happiest in his life. But then… papa’s ears are now huge, and new dad’s are not. Could they have grown that much in just 15 years?

Ah ha! A clue! A Reebok logo on a T-shirt. I got really excited to see this, but then found out that this particular version of the logo (wordmark on top) was not used until 2019. Shit.

Bracelet and necklace!

Santu wears a bracelet and a necklace!

Cut to hospital exterior. Santu is given a huge teddy bear. Congratulations on your new baby? Here he is wearing a grey T-shirt (Reebok?), along with bracelet and necklace, AND a bushy beard!

I think I was wrong!