Joseph a goat herder in Corsica refuses to sell his land to the mafia. They think he is just being cagey and will eventually sell. He doesn't plan to. When he kills one of them men who was supposed to intimidate him he has to flee. While the mafia tries to hunt Joseph down so they can force him to get revenge and sign his land over to them, his daughter refuses to back down and spreads Joseph's story.
Not what you expect thriller, travels closer to reality than pretty much any other similar story. This is not a film full of big action sequences, but small tense encounters that have weight because we are dealing with real people. Even the bad guys have a realness to them. It's a film that you feel in your gut.
Beautifully shot, with a score that drives things forward THE MOHICAN is a film that grabs you early and keeps you watching to the end. More importantly it's a film that is going to make you wonder where events go after the fade out. Yes, there is an ending, but you still want to know what happens to the characters past that.
While this is a small gem of a film, I don't want to over sell it. As I said above this isn't full of big action sequences. Instead this is a film where the characters carry the tale. If you want to see a super little thriller THE MOHICAN is recommended.
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