In The astronaut By Nicolas Giroud, Mathieu Kasowitz helps an aeronautical engineer build his own rocket to make the first amateur manned space flight. An opportunity for the actor to return to his passion for the microphone space Madame Figaro.
This is a film that speaks to the dream of so many men and women to go into space. Jim (Nicolas Giraud), an Ariane aeronautical engineer, has devoted eight years to a secret project to build his own rocket and be a passenger on the first amateur manned space flight. As her project finally comes to fruition, she must learn to share her dream with Alexander, a retired astronaut played by Mathieu Kasowitz.
A tailored role for an actor-director with a passion for astronomy, who himself had a film project in space 20 years ago. “It allowed me to meet the astronauts. I went to Houston, I went to the city of stars in Russia, he trusts the microphone Madame Figaro. Once it was an unattainable dream, except for a handful of people, but today it is becoming more democratic. But from the moment when you have money, it becomes possible, it is less interesting than when it was possible, if you had courage,” he says again.
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Five years after his last feature film The sun in my eyesNicolas Giroud therefore returns to cinemas with this very personal science drama, as crazy as it is serious, which he presents in front of and behind the camera. Kasowitz served as his mentor for this project. “It’s always good to deviate from the rules. It’s always something to do. You can never operate within the rules. He’s not interested,” he still confides about those characters who look up to the sky and still attract him just as much.
Source: Le Figaro
