Astrakan

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

Cast

 * 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
Neil Young of Screen Daily called the film an "engrossing exercise in empathetic humanism, unhurried and uninflected".

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."

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."