Gagarine (12A) at South Hill Park
Tue 30 Nov
|Bracknell
Gagarine blasts a crumbling French housing estate into orbit - SIGHT AND SOUND
Time & Location
30 Nov 2021, 19:00
Bracknell, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, UK
About the Event
Directed by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh | Drama | French | 95 mins | France | 2020
Set in Cité Gagarine – a vast red brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris – the film concocts a fantastical fiction around its real-life demolition in August 2019.
Isolated, inventive 16-year-old Yuri (an astonishing performance from Alseni Bathily) has lived in Cité Gagarine all his life. He dreams of becoming an astronaut, inspired by his namesake and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is seen in ’60s archive footage opening the complex in a more optimistic age. But now the Gagarine is in disrepair and when plans to demolish it are leaked, Yuri joins with friends Diana (Lyna Khoudri) and Houssam (Jamil McCraven) in an attempt to save it – in a stunning, magical turn, transforming the estate into his very own ‘starship’.
Wildly imaginative, explores themes of isolation and community, usin…