With a modest budget, the actor-director Nicolas Giraud imagines the first amateur aerospace flight.
by Maroussia Dubreuil
Few French films have risked conquering space since Le Voyage en la Moon, by Georges Méliès, in 1902. Recently, there was indeed intimate science fiction (2019), d ‘ Alice Winocour -The preparation of an astronaut for the city of stars, in Russia, torn between family life and spatial mission -, but the latter went rather unnoticed despite its undeniable qualities.
While it seemed established for many years that only Hollywood had the means to leave beyond atmospheres and celestial bodies, the French actor and director Nicolas Giraud dodges the financial question with a tailor-made history for budget modest, imagining the first amateur flight in space.
This is not a form of space tourism on the model of what SpaceX of Elon Musk or Blue Origin of Jeff Bezos offer, but the determination of a man to make by himself a Rocket that will take him more than a hundred kilometers above sea level. Of the aerospace homemade, which is not aimed at the anticipation or interstellar reconstruction.
passion crazy
If, in the current state of techniques, it is not thinkable that an individual manages to build his little private Apollo, that is to say an orbital spacecraft on one floor, the fact remains that ‘Astronaute offers a realistic vision of this particularly courageous propulsion.
We know about Nicolas Giraud, advised by the French Station Jean-François Clervoy, veteran of three missions with NASA which spent more than twenty-eight days in space, not to have been tempted by The pranks and catches of a Sunday handyman hero who makes a cartoon rocket.
Jim (interpreted by Giraud) is not a perfect novice but an aeronautical engineer at Arianegroup. It has been eight years that he has brought the European space agency and worked in secret with a passionate of chemistry and his grandmother, when he finally granted the services of two professionals, a retired astronaut and a mathematician.
The bias conscientiously followed the work of the group and the almost indebted atmosphere of the film – Jim still risks his life – prevails over the family lyricism which surrounds his tearful tablecloths the crazy passion of the young man. But, above all, our happiness is to find ourselves face to face with an UFO film between Armageddon (1998) and Petit Paysan (2017). We had never seen so beautiful rocket on the farm and jerk cosmonauts in the meadows. This space pastoral is proved to be the ideal ground for what looks like the Hollywood dream of Nicolas Giraud. Head in the stars, boots in the terroir.
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