Forget the romanticized versions of Paris and its surrounding areas that often dominate both film and TV — “Gagarine” gets brutally real about the City of Lights.
Although the film’s narrative is a work of fiction, there is a real grounding to it that confronts the issues of displacement working-class and poor people increasingly face. Setting the story at the now-demolished Cité Gagarin housing project on the outskirts of Paris helps accomplish that.
Named for the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space, the Gagarine building is a character unto itself. The film’s protagonist Youri (played by Alséni Bathily) even derives his name from the iconic figure. But even though young Youri has dreams of also traveling to space, being poor makes realizing them tough. Co-directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh have professional experience with public policies of displacement and have incorporated that into...
Although the film’s narrative is a work of fiction, there is a real grounding to it that confronts the issues of displacement working-class and poor people increasingly face. Setting the story at the now-demolished Cité Gagarin housing project on the outskirts of Paris helps accomplish that.
Named for the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space, the Gagarine building is a character unto itself. The film’s protagonist Youri (played by Alséni Bathily) even derives his name from the iconic figure. But even though young Youri has dreams of also traveling to space, being poor makes realizing them tough. Co-directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh have professional experience with public policies of displacement and have incorporated that into...
- 4/1/2022
- by Ronda Racha Penrice
- The Wrap
Cohen Media Group Gagarine Directed by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh Written by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh and Benjamin Charbit Starring Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri Finnegan Oldfield, Jamil McCraven (Nocturama), Farida Rahouadj and Denis Lavant Opens on Friday, April 1 in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and other top …
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- 3/13/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
"They're gonna tear this place down." Cohen Media Group has debuted an official US trailer for the French film Gagarine, finally getting a US release this April. The was originally supposed to premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival before was cancelled, later showing up at the Zurich Film Festival and many others. It's a wonderful film about young French teens watching as their beloved housing project is demolished. What's your dream? In Gagarine, a teenager who dreams of being an astronaut turns the housing project where he lives, a massive brick city on the brink of destruction, into a starship before it disappears into space entirely. "This Cannes award-winner dazzles with both cinematographic and deep-space bravura while holding up decent housing as a core human right." Starring Alseni Bathily as Youri, with Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Farida Rahouadj, & Denis Lavant. The trailer really captures the magic and beauty of this,...
- 2/27/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A common trend amongst autistic people is the desire to escape, to exist outside of ourselves and transport into another realm. There is this consistent appeal and magnetism to the idea of going to space, of floating amongst the void where there is no weight or sound to overwhelm or trigger you. While the realities of space are terrifying and dangerous, there is something about its endless possibilities that inspires that desire for so many of us throughout our lives, a fixation that we can devote all our knowledge and passions towards. In our reality, autistic people experience discrimination and a lack of proper support throughout the world, especially if they’re poor or a person of color. There is little state assistance for autistic people, a societal lack of knowledge about what being autistic actually means, and explicit hatred from ableists. While being autistic is often beautiful and not...
- 3/12/2021
- by Logan Kenny
- The Film Stage
François Ozon’s Summer of ’85 (Été ’85) screens in New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 26th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema line-up of 18 feature films and free Special Events. Opening the festival is Sébastien Lifshitz’s Little Girl (Petite Fille) with eight-year-old Sasha. Other highlights include François Ozon’s Summer of ’85 (Été ’85), starring Benjamin Voisin and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (music by The Cure); Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom (Seize printemps) with Lindon opposite Arnaud Valois; Nicole Garcia’s Lovers (Amants), starring Stacy Martin, Pierre Niney, and Benoît Magimel; Hélier Cisterne’s Faithful (De nos frères blessés) starring Vicky Krieps and Vincent Lacoste; Quentin Reynaud’s Final Set (Cinquième) set with Kristin Scott Thomas, Ana Girardot, and Alex Lutz, and Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Gagarin (Gagarine) with Jamil McCraven, Lyna Khoudri, and a cameo by Denis Lavant.
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- 2/11/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s been 25 years since “La Haine” made the banlieue a staple of French cinema. On the back of Mathieu Kassovitz’s cinematic Molotov cocktail, movies such as “Girlhood,” “Divines,” “Cuties” and “Les Miserables” have made the concrete jungles on the outskirts of Paris a haven for cineastes. But none of them are quite like Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s remarkable “Gagarine,” which mixes French social realism with Latin American magical realism before adding a dose of stardust from space movie classics, “Solaris,” “2001” and “Star Wars.”
“Gagarine” was a Cannes Official Selection label, unveiling at the Marché du Film Online, where it was a buzz title for Totem Films, selling out around the planet. The Haut et Court production is currently playing in competition at the Cairo Film Festival.
The film is a skillful blend of reality and fiction, making use of archive material and an exciting young French...
“Gagarine” was a Cannes Official Selection label, unveiling at the Marché du Film Online, where it was a buzz title for Totem Films, selling out around the planet. The Haut et Court production is currently playing in competition at the Cairo Film Festival.
The film is a skillful blend of reality and fiction, making use of archive material and an exciting young French...
- 12/10/2020
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Variety Film + TV
Film was among 56 titles selected for the special Cannes 2020 label.
Paris-based sales company Totem Films has unveiled more than a dozen fresh deals on Cannes 2020 label title Gagarine, which was one of the buzziest arthouse titles in the virtual Cannes market, running June 22-26 last week.
In Europe, it has sold to Austria (Polyfilm), Benelux (Cinéart), Denmark (Angel Films), Officine Ubu (Italy), Finland (Cinemanse), Greece (Weird Wave), Norway (Selmer Media), Poland (Best Film), Spain (Karma Films), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Switzerland (Filmcoopi) and ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom).
In the rest of the world, it has sold to Australia (Madman), Brazil (Vitrine), Israel (Lev Cinemas...
Paris-based sales company Totem Films has unveiled more than a dozen fresh deals on Cannes 2020 label title Gagarine, which was one of the buzziest arthouse titles in the virtual Cannes market, running June 22-26 last week.
In Europe, it has sold to Austria (Polyfilm), Benelux (Cinéart), Denmark (Angel Films), Officine Ubu (Italy), Finland (Cinemanse), Greece (Weird Wave), Norway (Selmer Media), Poland (Best Film), Spain (Karma Films), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Switzerland (Filmcoopi) and ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom).
In the rest of the world, it has sold to Australia (Madman), Brazil (Vitrine), Israel (Lev Cinemas...
- 6/29/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
“Gagarine” starts like Lynne Ramsay’s “Ratcatcher” and ends like “The Martian” in housing projects. That unlikely combo speaks to the unique energy at the heart of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s poignant first feature, which follows a young man struggling to salvage his earthbound surroundings even as he dreams of leaving them for good.
Just as Ladj Ly’s 2019 “Les Misérables” probed the racially-charged tensions between Parisian officers and its lower classes, “Gagarine” explores an underrepresented slice of recent French history through a personal lens. “Cité Gagarine,” the French housing project that once served as a hub for the French Communist Party throughout the ‘70s, took its name from Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarine, the first man in space — who visited the building complex in the early ‘60s. In 2019, as the building fell into disrepair and the working-class activists who once thrived there died off or moved on, the...
Just as Ladj Ly’s 2019 “Les Misérables” probed the racially-charged tensions between Parisian officers and its lower classes, “Gagarine” explores an underrepresented slice of recent French history through a personal lens. “Cité Gagarine,” the French housing project that once served as a hub for the French Communist Party throughout the ‘70s, took its name from Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarine, the first man in space — who visited the building complex in the early ‘60s. In 2019, as the building fell into disrepair and the working-class activists who once thrived there died off or moved on, the...
- 6/26/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Thompson on Hollywood
“Gagarine” starts like Lynne Ramsay’s “Ratcatcher” and ends like “The Martian” in housing projects. That unlikely combo speaks to the unique energy at the heart of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s poignant first feature, which follows a young man struggling to salvage his earthbound surroundings even as he dreams of leaving them for good.
Just as Ladj Ly’s 2019 “Les Misérables” probed the racially-charged tensions between Parisian officers and its lower classes, “Gagarine” explores an underrepresented slice of recent French history through a personal lens. “Cité Gagarine,” the French housing project that once served as a hub for the French Communist Party throughout the ‘70s, took its name from Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarine, the first man in space — who visited the building complex in the early ‘60s. In 2019, as the building fell into disrepair and the working-class activists who once thrived there died off or moved on, the...
Just as Ladj Ly’s 2019 “Les Misérables” probed the racially-charged tensions between Parisian officers and its lower classes, “Gagarine” explores an underrepresented slice of recent French history through a personal lens. “Cité Gagarine,” the French housing project that once served as a hub for the French Communist Party throughout the ‘70s, took its name from Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarine, the first man in space — who visited the building complex in the early ‘60s. In 2019, as the building fell into disrepair and the working-class activists who once thrived there died off or moved on, the...
- 6/26/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Debut feature was selected for special Cannes 2020 Official Selection label.
Cohen Media Group (Cmg) and Curzon have snapped up Us and UK rights on hot Cannes 2020 Official Selection title Gagarine, which is proving to be one of the buzziest features screening in this week’s virtual Cannes market.
It is their second joint acquisition since Cmg acquired Curzon in December, following their recent deal on Fernando Trueba’s Forgotten We’ll Be.
Paris-based company Totem Films is handling international sales on the feature, which is among 56 films selected by the Cannes Film Festival for the special 2020 Official Selection label it created...
Cohen Media Group (Cmg) and Curzon have snapped up Us and UK rights on hot Cannes 2020 Official Selection title Gagarine, which is proving to be one of the buzziest features screening in this week’s virtual Cannes market.
It is their second joint acquisition since Cmg acquired Curzon in December, following their recent deal on Fernando Trueba’s Forgotten We’ll Be.
Paris-based company Totem Films is handling international sales on the feature, which is among 56 films selected by the Cannes Film Festival for the special 2020 Official Selection label it created...
- 6/25/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
A boy, a building and a looming big bang: Out of these elements French directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh create a wondrous debut feature that derives such a crackle of authenticity from the physical reality of its setting that its starry-eyed metaphysics seem uncannily plausible too. A fiction set and shot around a real event — the August 2019 demolition of the huge Cité Gagarine, a 370-apartment housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris — “Gagarine” is dream built from debris, a rocketship made from rubble, and a touching tribute to stratospheric aspirations thriving against the odds in even the most maligned and marginalized communities. We may be in the suburbs, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Youri (superb newcomer Alséni Bathily) is one such stargazer. A 16-year-old Black kid with a shy smile and gift for engineering, he has lived his whole life in Gagarine. On the one hand,...
Youri (superb newcomer Alséni Bathily) is one such stargazer. A 16-year-old Black kid with a shy smile and gift for engineering, he has lived his whole life in Gagarine. On the one hand,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based sales company Totem Films has unveiled a teaser for “Gagarine,” a feature debut by Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouilh which is part of Cannes’ Official Selection.
Totem Films will be hosting two virtual market screening at Cannes’ online Marché du Film that kicks off on Monday. Haut et Court, one of France’s top arthouse distributors, will release “Gagarine” locally on Feb. 10.
The movie is headlined by an attractive cast, including the newcomer Alséni Bathily, rising actors Lydia Khouri, Jamil McCraven (“Nocturama”), Finnegan Oldfield (“Bang Gang”), as well as well-known thesp Denis Lavant (“Holy Motors”).
The movie tells the story of Youri, a French teenager who has lived all his life in Gagarine Cité, a huge, red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. When Youri finds out about plans to demolish his community’s home, he joins his friends Diana and Houssam on a mission to save Gagarine.
Totem Films will be hosting two virtual market screening at Cannes’ online Marché du Film that kicks off on Monday. Haut et Court, one of France’s top arthouse distributors, will release “Gagarine” locally on Feb. 10.
The movie is headlined by an attractive cast, including the newcomer Alséni Bathily, rising actors Lydia Khouri, Jamil McCraven (“Nocturama”), Finnegan Oldfield (“Bang Gang”), as well as well-known thesp Denis Lavant (“Holy Motors”).
The movie tells the story of Youri, a French teenager who has lived all his life in Gagarine Cité, a huge, red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. When Youri finds out about plans to demolish his community’s home, he joins his friends Diana and Houssam on a mission to save Gagarine.
- 6/19/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The French firm will notably be selling Official Selection Label title Gagarin by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh and Stambul Garden by Germany’s Ilker Çatak. One year after its official launch on the Croisette, the international French sales agent Totem Films, steered by Agathe Valentin, Laure Parleani and Bérénice Vincent, will be negotiating on behalf of nine titles at the Cannes Film Festival’s Online Marché du Film (running 22 - 26 June). Stealing focus among these films is Gagarin, the first feature by the French duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, which has been awarded the Cannes 73 Official Selection Label.Starring Alséni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Farida Rahouadj and also Denis Lavant, the film follows in the footsteps of 16-year-old Youri who has grown up in Gagarin, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris (Ivry-sur-Seine) where he dreams of becoming an astronaut. When he.
Nocturama Grasshopper Films Director: Bertrand Bonello Written by: Bertrand Bonello Cast: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa, Martin Guyot, Jamil McCraven, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laure Valentinelli, Ilias Le Doré, Robin Goldronn, Luis Rego, Hermine Karagheuz, Adèle Haenel. Screened with Critics’ link, NYC, 8/7/17 Opens: August 11, 2017 In his movie two years ago, […]
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- 8/7/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
At the bar with Nocturama director Bertrand Bonello Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
After being seated next to Django director Étienne Comar and Reda Kateb (who portrays Django Reinhardt) at the uniFrance Locanda Verde lunch, I had a conversation with Bertrand Bonello on his latest film. Nocturama, shot by cinematographer Léo Hinstin, edited by Fabrice Rouaud, costumes by Sonia Philouze with music by Bonello. It has an ensemble cast that includes Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa, Martin Petit-Guyot, Jamil McCraven, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laure Valentinelli, Ilias Le Doré, Robin Goldbronn, Luis Rego, Hermine Karagheuz, and Adèle Haenel.
Finnegan Oldfield as David in Nocturama Photo: Carole Bethuel
When I spoke last year with Thomas Bidegain on Les Cowboys about actor Finnegan Oldfield, who stars in both his and Bertrand's film, he told me that Nocturama was being edited the day of the Bataclan attack in Paris.
Nocturama, a highlight of...
After being seated next to Django director Étienne Comar and Reda Kateb (who portrays Django Reinhardt) at the uniFrance Locanda Verde lunch, I had a conversation with Bertrand Bonello on his latest film. Nocturama, shot by cinematographer Léo Hinstin, edited by Fabrice Rouaud, costumes by Sonia Philouze with music by Bonello. It has an ensemble cast that includes Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa, Martin Petit-Guyot, Jamil McCraven, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laure Valentinelli, Ilias Le Doré, Robin Goldbronn, Luis Rego, Hermine Karagheuz, and Adèle Haenel.
Finnegan Oldfield as David in Nocturama Photo: Carole Bethuel
When I spoke last year with Thomas Bidegain on Les Cowboys about actor Finnegan Oldfield, who stars in both his and Bertrand's film, he told me that Nocturama was being edited the day of the Bataclan attack in Paris.
Nocturama, a highlight of...
- 3/8/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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