Gagarine

A lively tale, a kind of "parabol", about how an old, half broken complex of buildings, Gagarine, named from the famous cosmonaut, can turn out to be a place full of life and emotions. In an uneasy environment, constructive social interactions seem to have been able to create a positive atmosphere in which people tend to respect and help each other .

Yuri, this teenager boy dedicated to maintaining Gagarine, dives deeply into space in his mind, and his living place is a symbolic doorway to travel far away from existential issues, the main one being the absence of his mother.

Saving Gagarine is his graal, and his quest could refer to the hability of any human being to escape his human condition, to look for wisdom and spirituality.

"Les choses de la vie", meaning crucial emotional experience like love, friendship, respect, tolerance, forgiveness are present all along the movie in a delicate, subtle way sometimes.

This movie is a bright and optimistic vision of us, creatures gifted with intelligence, but so eager to use it in the wrong way.

The end is an illusion, Yuri's one; his vision as he gets free, driven into space as his life faints and Gagarine buildings are collapsing.