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Gagarine

2020 · 95 min

A tender, dreamy drift through a doomed housing estate, blending quiet social realism with a lonely boy's starry-eyed fantasy of escape.

Directed by
Jérémy Trouilh, Fanny Liatard
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Starring
Alséni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven
Overview
Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”

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Directed by
Jérémy Trouilh, Fanny Liatard
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Starring
Alséni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • found family
  • class
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism6
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, fantasy, romance, science fiction
Directed by
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Written by
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, Benjamin Charbit
Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
95 min
Country
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Languages
French, Russian, Sanskrit

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