Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh re-envision the demolition of the housing project Cité Gagarine — an aspirational symbol of French communism — with a heavy dose of magical realism. By Beatrice Loayza ...

Teenager Youri (Alséni Bathily) has dreams of becoming an astronaut but must first battle to save his housing project home from demolition. This is a powerful story of class, race, imagination and ...

A space-age film score usually suggests ominous science fiction. But in the French coming-of-age drama “Gagarine,” the electronic music pulsates under scenes of a very real and very earthbound public ...

Forget the romanticized versions of Paris and its surrounding areas that often dominate both film and TV — “Gagarine” gets brutally real about the City of Lights. Although the film’s narrative is a ...