‘Gabin’ Review: A French Farm Boy Grows Up, Both Fast and Slow, in a Marvelous Cannes Discovery (opens in new tab)

“Gabin” is far from the first film — nonfiction or otherwise — to make a longterm investment in a child protagonist, training a camera on them over years as adulthood gradually approaches. Maxence Voiseux’s film has obvious precedents in such documentary projects as Michael Apted’s landmark “7 Up” series and Robert David Cochrane’s “Boys of […]