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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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"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,...

Les Sauvages (Savages) Topic.com Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Writer: Sabri Louatah (novels & screenplay); Rebecca Zlotowski, Benjamin Charbit, David Elkim Cast: Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Marina Foïs, Dali Benssalah, Sofiane Zermani, Souheila Yacoub, Shaïn Boumedine, Kadri Islands, Carima Amarouche, Lyna Khoudri, Farida Rahouadj Screened […]

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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.

Gagarine

Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh make their directorial debut with Gagarine (based on their 2015 short), produced by Julie Billy and Carole Scotta. Their feature stars Alséni Bathily, Jamil Mc Craven, Lyna Khoudri (remarkable in 2019’s Papicha), Finnegan Oldfield, Farida Rahouadj and the iconoclast Denis Lavant. Winner at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand film festival for shorts, Liatard and Trouilh have received acclaim for this year’s “Blue Dog” and “La République des enchanteurs” in 2017.

Gist: Co-written by Benjamin Charbit (The Trouble With You), 17-year-old Youri, native of the Gagarine housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, dreams of a space conquest while awaiting the return of his mother.…...

Alséni Bathily, Jamil Mc Craven, Lyna Khoudri, Finnegan Oldfield, Farida Rahouadj and Denis Lavant are among the cast of this Haut et Court production being sold by Totem Films. 22 July marks the beginning of the shoot for Gagarine, the debut feature by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh. Having made a splash with their short films Blue Dog (in national competition in Clermont-Ferrand this year and winner of the International Press Award at the MyFrenchFilmFestival) and La République des enchanteurs (winner of the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand in 2017), the duo of filmmakers have cast Alséni Bathily (on screen for the first time), Jamil Mc Craven (Nocturama), Lyna Khoudri, Finnegan Oldfield (nominated for...

Paris — In his first feature since 2010’s “The Clink of Ice,” filmmaker Bertrand Blier returns with a somber, existentialist farce reminiscent of the last century’s most celebrated absurdist theater.

Vladimir and Estragon, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, meet Taupin and Foster (Gérard Depardieu and Christian Clavier). One is homeless, the other well off, though that dynamic eventually flips. As they ramble the streets of Brussels, the two are constantly met by legions of script supervisors, who deliver them the latest pages and revisions that will inform their next steps.

As in “The Truman Show,” an all-seeing showrunner lies behind the scenes; as in “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” our protagonists sometimes bristle at the roles they have been cast into.

Still, the film’s premise is less an existential treatise than a malleable platform for a series of monologues, dialogues and testy exchanges. More than anything else, “Heavy Duty...