GAGARINE
| 2022 – 98′ – Drama, Coming of age
Written by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, Benjamin Charbit
Directed by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh.
Starring Alséni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Denis Lavant, Farida Rahouadj, Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard).
West Coast Premiere The American French Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|
Fanny Liatard’s and Jérémy Trouilh’s poetic, visually stunning, truly magical first feature revolves around Yuri, a 16-year-old boy desperately determined to save his home — the decaying, outer-city Paris housing project, Cité Gagarine — from demolition. That’s both the point of departure and rhapsodic theme of this astonishingly ambitious, beautifully realized, terrifically moving film that shoots for the stars, speaking of love and abandonment, community and isolation, dreams of floating through space, and, most of all, that deep, irrepressible need for home, family and human connection. A sort of Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the 21st Century, Gagarine was an Official Selection of the unfortunately-canceled 2020 Cannes Film Festival.