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Astrakan

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Astrakan
Directed byDavid Depesseville
Written byDavid Depesseville
Produced byCarole Chassaing
Anaïs Feuillette
Starring
CinematographySimon Beaufils
Edited byMartial Solomon
Production
company
Tamara Films
Distributed byTamara Films
Release date
  • 9 August 2022 (2022-08-09) (Locarno Film Festival)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Astrakan is a 2022 French coming-of-age drama film directed by David Depesseville, starring Mirko Giannini, Jehnny Beth and Bastien Bouillon.

Cast

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  • 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

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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

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  1. ^ Young, Neil (9 August 2022). "'Astrakan': Locarno Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  2. ^ Del Don, Georgia (11 August 2022). "Review: Astrakan". Cineuropa. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  3. ^ Kudlac, Martin (25 August 2022). "Locarno 2022 Review: ASTRAKAN, Social Allegory Disguised As Coming-of-Age Tale". ScreenAnarchy. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
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