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Join Telegram ChannelLouis Garrel in the air, having fun reenacting the adventures of Saint-Exupéry. Despite a sluggish storyline, the film manages, through its effects, to create vertigo.
In the biopic fair that sees filmmakers wallowing headlong into their own fake settings one by one, we thought – aviation obliges – that this one would crash a little faster than the others. The first minutes are immediately intriguing. We see Vincent Cassel and Louis Garrel clinging to their zinc passing between the clouds in a cinema sky where the fake, partly assuming itself, produces an almost childish enchantment.
Once accepted this poetic pact facilitated by the malice of the actors complicit in the deal, we follow them wherever they want and steal. Once on the ground, things get a little worse, in the absence of dramatic issues to match the promised vertigo. We will therefore pass on the poetic-meaningful encounter with a curly toddler who fortunately has the decency of not wanting a sheep to be drawn for him and the weeping projections of Diane Kruger not really served. But let's return to our other sheep.
In 1930, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a young daredevil pilot for an Argentine Aéropostale weakened by the risks of the job. The day his friend Henri Guillaumet disappears from radar above the Andes, the future author of The Little Prince tries the impossible to find him. In the air everything becomes possible again. It is precisely there, suspended, that the Argentinian Pablo Agüero (The Witches of Akelarre…) manages to get his small business off the ground again. The filmmaker believes in the possibilities of his art and like an adventurer in the air seeks to track the horizon.
By Pablo Agüero. With Louis Garrel, Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger… Duration 1h38. Released December 11, 2024