“Saint-Ex” with Louis Garrel, a false biopic that doesn’t take off – Libération

The Argentinian Pablo Aguëro locks the aviator writer in the dreamlike scenes of a film that lacks breath.

A biopic of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? The idea is likely to appeal to many producers looking for subjects for a popular adventure film. The author of Little Prince, mega worldwide success, had a sufficiently eventful life to comfortably fill a fresco mixing literary life and the adventures of Aéropostale, first in Africa then in South America. But Saint-Ex from Argentina Pablo Agüero (The Witches of Akelarre), we realize very quickly, is less a biographical project than a poetic or stylized evocation of the aviator and man of letters interpreted with his proverbial nonchalance by Louis Garrel, the actor who least resembles the original . The action takes place in the frozen provinces of the Andes where the duo Saint-Ex and Henri Guillaumet worked at the end of the 1920s to develop Aéropostale in a particularly risky high altitude environment. Saint-Ex is represented as a character a r