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Astrakan Review — Astrakan (2022) Film Review from the 75th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie directed by David Depesseville and starring Mirko Giannini, Lisa Heredia, Bastien Bouillon, Cameron Bertrand, Nathael Bertrand, Theo Costa-Marini, Paul Blain, Lorine Delin and Jehnny Beth. Astrakan is filmmaker David Depesseville’s coming-of-age story of a young boy in foster care [...]

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Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean-Claude Brisseau's Céline (1992) is showing July 20 - August 18, 2019 in the United States.Early in his career, once his ambitious, feature-length debut made on Super 8 had been discovered by Éric Rohmer and Maurice Pialat, Jean-Claude Brisseau (1944-2019) attracted the tag of being a social realist, a “poet of suburbia.” From Life the Way It Is (1978) to Sound and Fury (1988), the jagged, often violent plots reflected his life experience as a committed teacher to troubled, working-class kids. But other, less-heralded aspects of these films, as well as of A Brutal Game (1983) and White Wedding (1989), were already pointing in a different, more holistic direction: dreams and visions, intimating the presence of some broadly defined “other world.” Brisseau declared in 2002: “My films are all about the problem of our relation to reality—whatever that reality may be. I’ve always...