From February 15, Nicolas Giraud invites you to the cinema for a film as intimate as it is luminous: L’Astronaute, with Mathieu Kassovitz and Hélène Vincent, among others. Trailer.
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Group, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first amateur manned space flight. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it…
“In the film, Jim takes eight years to build his rocket. It took me five to “deliver” the film.“These words are those spoken by Nicolas Giraud, director and main actor of L’Astronaute, at the cinema on February 15.
Revealed in front of the camera in The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, What the day owes to the night or The Guardians, the one who has already signed the feature film The sun in my eyes returns this year with this new project describing destiny of a man wishing at all costs to follow his dream.
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In the guise of Jim, the filmmaker portrays this space enthusiast who will do everything to grant a wish that may seem unattainable: to achieve the first amateur manned space flight in history. In addition to its astronautical dimension and its rocket take-off sequences, the film focuses above all on the release of everyone’s potential, the will to follow one’s dreams and the filial and family love that can elevate to the highest.
If he takes on the role of the hero, Nicolas Giraud shares the bill with a cast that is starry to say the least. Mathieu Kassovitz plays a French astronaut supporting Jim, when Hélène Vincent plays the latter’s grandmother. We also find Hippolyte Girardot, Bruno Lochet (Les Deschiens), the actress Carole Trévoux, Jérémie Renier or even Anne Charrier. Without forgetting the Ayumi Roux revelation.