| Astrakan | |
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| Directed by | David Depesseville |
| Written by | David Depesseville |
| Produced by | Carole Chassaing Anaïs Feuillette |
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| Cinematography | Simon Beaufils |
| Edited by | Martial Solomon |
Production company | Tamara Films |
| Distributed by | Tamara Films |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Astrakan is a 2022 French coming-of-age drama film directed by David Depesseville, starring Mirko Giannini, Jehnny Beth and Bastien Bouillon.
Cast
[edit]- Mirko Giannini as Samuel
- Jehnny Beth as Marie
- Bastien Bouillon as Clément
- Theo Costa-Marini as Luc
- Lorine Delin as Helene
- Cameron Bertrand
- Nathaël Bertrand
Reception
[edit]Neil Young of Screen Daily called the film an "engrossing exercise in empathetic humanism, unhurried and uninflected".[1]
Georgia Del Don of Cineuropa wrote that the film is "far more" than a "precise account of the ambiguous and vertiginous time marking the transition from childhood to adolescence."[2]
Martin Kudlac of ScreenAnarchy wrote that despite the film being a "social allegory disguised as a coming-of-age tale imbued with the latent cringe cruelty of Todd Solondz's poetics", the film "works" as a "concentrated representation of the agony and confusion of growing up."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Young, Neil (9 August 2022). "'Astrakan': Locarno Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ Del Don, Georgia (11 August 2022). "Review: Astrakan". Cineuropa. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ Kudlac, Martin (25 August 2022). "Locarno 2022 Review: ASTRAKAN, Social Allegory Disguised As Coming-of-Age Tale". ScreenAnarchy. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
External links
[edit]- Astrakan at IMDb
- Astrakan at Rotten Tomatoes