This documentary portrait struggles to keep up with Leclerc as he prepares for a perilous ascent in Patagonia. Twenty-three-year-old Canadian rock climber Marc-Andre Leclerc has accomplished some of the boldest solo ascents in history but he is nomadic and publicity shy. Alas, residents are served with an evacuation order and must vacate within six months.Īlso Released This Week. The apartments are threatened with demolition so Youri, best friend Houssam and Roma girl Diana scavenge for supplies to fix problems in the building to stave off the inevitable.
Sixteen-year-old Youri has been abandoned by his mother and lives alone in the Cite Gagarine housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, where he indulges a fascination with astronomy with his telescope.
Gagarine directed by Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouilh.
