Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Breaking (Abi Damaris Corbin)
Following on the heels of his impressive turn in Steve McQueen’s Red, White and Blue, John Boyega does noble work in Breaking, directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. Boyega stars as Brian Brown-Easley, the 33-year-old Marine veteran who held a bank hostage in order to get a disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs he was owed. The amount was eight-hundred and ninety-two dollars. – Dan M. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
Destello Bravío (Ainhoa Rodríguez)
In the arid, lunar landscape of Ainhoa Rodríguez’s Destello Bravío, a whole village waits for things to fall apart. We’re in the rural outskirts of Spain’s Extremadura region, a few miles from the border with Portugal, but the...
Breaking (Abi Damaris Corbin)
Following on the heels of his impressive turn in Steve McQueen’s Red, White and Blue, John Boyega does noble work in Breaking, directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. Boyega stars as Brian Brown-Easley, the 33-year-old Marine veteran who held a bank hostage in order to get a disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs he was owed. The amount was eight-hundred and ninety-two dollars. – Dan M. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
Destello Bravío (Ainhoa Rodríguez)
In the arid, lunar landscape of Ainhoa Rodríguez’s Destello Bravío, a whole village waits for things to fall apart. We’re in the rural outskirts of Spain’s Extremadura region, a few miles from the border with Portugal, but the...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Contending with feelings of isolation and loss of community in a realist manner is a vital experience for many people, especially those young adults who feel lost without hope in their ever-changing life circumstances. That’s certainly true for up-and-coming actor Alseni Bathily’s character of the adolescent Youri in the new drama, ‘Gagarine.’ The protagonist is […]
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- 4/30/2022
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Ambulance (Michael Bay)
The Marvel machine may be the most fortuitous development for Michael Bay. Though the director hasn’t dabbled in the world of superheroes—despite a fondness for a cinematic universe of the robot variety—the homogenized, green-screen wasteland of today’s box-office behemoths has indirectly led to a reappreciation of the director’s schoolboy giddiness for practical effects and continually upping the ante for where he can place a camera. As bombastic and occasionally mind-numbing as his approach may be, there’s distinct poetry to the momentum of a maximalist vision where previs filmmaking vis-a-vis a committee is not only missing from his vocabulary, but a kinetic approach makes such a proposition nigh impossible. With Ambulance, a streamlined spectacle that borrows liberally from Heat,...
Ambulance (Michael Bay)
The Marvel machine may be the most fortuitous development for Michael Bay. Though the director hasn’t dabbled in the world of superheroes—despite a fondness for a cinematic universe of the robot variety—the homogenized, green-screen wasteland of today’s box-office behemoths has indirectly led to a reappreciation of the director’s schoolboy giddiness for practical effects and continually upping the ante for where he can place a camera. As bombastic and occasionally mind-numbing as his approach may be, there’s distinct poetry to the momentum of a maximalist vision where previs filmmaking vis-a-vis a committee is not only missing from his vocabulary, but a kinetic approach makes such a proposition nigh impossible. With Ambulance, a streamlined spectacle that borrows liberally from Heat,...
- 4/29/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s remarkable drama Gagarine is one of the best films of 2022. Centered on Youri, a 17-year-old engineer who is likely on the spectrum, and his hyper-fixation on space, we witness his struggles to cope with the abandonment from his mother and the imminent destruction of his apartment complex. As the building empties out entirely, he sets out to transform his home into a spaceship, crafting an escape from the hardships of the world and finding a way to keep his building intact forever. While on this journey of keeping his home alive, he begins a relationship with Diana, a young Romani woman who figures out the way to communicate with him properly. Youri is forced to reckon between the hardships of the real world, and the fragile beauty of his dreams.
Gagarine is an incredibly intimate and compassionate film, one that never makes fun of...
Gagarine is an incredibly intimate and compassionate film, one that never makes fun of...
- 4/5/2022
- by Logan Kenny
- The Film Stage
Favorites of the Moon: Liatard and Trouilh Stargaze Through the Rubble of Resistance
Yuri (Alseni Bathily) seems to be the glue holding his community together in the sprawling apartment complex Cite Gagarine, a monolithic structure anointed in the early 1960s but in a virtual state of disrepair on the outskirts of Paris, a home to the displaced and disenfranchised. When the building fails its latest inspection, Yuri, so named for the cosmonaut whose name defines the complex, at first remains optimistic. But as the six-month evacuation order crawls to its last day, it becomes clear that despite Yuri’s affections for his friends and neighbors he is destined to fall through the cracks upon learning his mother won’t be able to let him move into her new abode with her boyfriend.…...
Yuri (Alseni Bathily) seems to be the glue holding his community together in the sprawling apartment complex Cite Gagarine, a monolithic structure anointed in the early 1960s but in a virtual state of disrepair on the outskirts of Paris, a home to the displaced and disenfranchised. When the building fails its latest inspection, Yuri, so named for the cosmonaut whose name defines the complex, at first remains optimistic. But as the six-month evacuation order crawls to its last day, it becomes clear that despite Yuri’s affections for his friends and neighbors he is destined to fall through the cracks upon learning his mother won’t be able to let him move into her new abode with her boyfriend.…...
- 3/28/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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
Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film and best actress prizes
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
- 1/18/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The awards are voted on by 95 international correspondents from 36 countries.
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
- 12/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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
On 12 April, 1961, Klushino-born pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space. Despite all the rivalries of the cold war, he would become an inspiration for people all around the world. Set in a real life French housing project which bears his name, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh's magical realist fable follows a teenage boy named Youri (played by newcomer Alseni Bathily) who is cared for by the wider community after his troubled mother abandons him. When the estate is scheduled to be demolished, Youri doesn't want to leave, but scavenges among the empty apartments, corridors and elevator shafts, building his own capsule in an attempt to escape from a world which seems to have no place for him.
A modern fairy tale set among the poor and outcast on the fringes of Parisian society, Gagarine balances its strange beauty with scenes showing the casual brutality.
A modern fairy tale set among the poor and outcast on the fringes of Parisian society, Gagarine balances its strange beauty with scenes showing the casual brutality.
- 3/3/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“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
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