Astrakhan fur is unique: dark, beautiful, and stripped exclusively from newborn lambs, even ones killed in their mother’s womb. (Stella McCarthy once said it’s like wearing a fetus.) That ruthlessness—a sense of lost innocence; blood sacrifice—runs deep in Astrakan, a new film from France and one of the better in Locarno this year; and if that title isn’t enough to give pause, plenty else in the opening exchanges will. The first act is a procession of flags, both red and false: at the opening the protagonist, Samuel, lightly goads a snake in the reptile house of a zoo; moments later a rabbit is hung and skinned in his kitchen with all the ceremony of a boiled kettle; queasiest of all, an older lad is seen walking toward the house cradling berries in his shirt, just enough that the lip of his underwear and his midriff are left strikingly visible.
- 8/11/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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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- 8/10/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
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