The biopic on Neil Armstrong by Damien Chazelle returns not only to the famous establishment, but also along the mourning of the astronaut after the death of his daughter Karen.
Retracing the long quest for the Nasa To make the first establishment, First Man Sends spectators to the stars. This biopic, signed Damien Chazelle, follows more particularly Neil Armstrongtest pilot and astronaut who decides to get started with this new goal after the death of his three -year -old daughter. Karen Armstrong died on January 28, 1962, following pneumonia after having contracted a tumor in the brain which considerably weakened it.
Behind a film on the first steps of the man on the MoonDamien Chazelle demonstrates his desire to follow the mourning of a father, to the final scene, in which the protagonist embodied by Ryan Gosling throws his daughter’s bracelet who died seven years earlier on the moon. If this scene of First Man Represents an emotional climax in the film, we have no evidence that Neil Armstrong has really made this gesture, the scenario having taken on artistic freedom on this subject.
James Hansen, the official biographer of the astronaut, revealed in an interview to NBC News Let’s not know what Neil Armstrong took with him during his trip to the Moon. However, he went well to the Crater Little West (where he deposits the bracelet in the biopic), without it being planned in the mission, without anyone knowing why. James Hansen confirmed that, as in First Man, Neil Armstrong did not mention his daughter neither with his relatives nor with his wife Janet Armstrong, and that he had been deeply marked by the death of his child.
Synopsis – Damien Chazelle’s film (Whiplash, La La Land) is a biopic devoted to Neil Armstrong, for the occasion embodied by Ryan Gosling (Drive, La Land) on the screen. We follow the quest for NASA which tried in the 1960s to send a man to the moon. Before capturing the incredible images of man’s first steps on the moon, a long series of terrestrial and atmospheric trials put the nerves of scientists and astronauts with rude test.
Released in French theaters on October 17, 2018, First Man is a film by Damien Chazelle, director of Whiplash and the La Land two films praised by criticism when they released. This time, the 33 -year -old young filmmaker is working on the very popular genre of the biographical film since he dedicates his film to Neil Armstrong and the quest for NASA to take the man on the moon in the 1960s. First We warn immediately: it is not a “feel-good” film with a patriotic subject. The specialized magazine rents this perspective chosen by Chazelle, that of the human drama which he stages as an “anti big spectacle, almost an anti -film American”. Vanity Fair Confirms: “The feature film confronts the spectacular with the intimate, deafening him to the silencer, the astronaut with the father of the family … As if to better emphasize the foundations and the implications of this spatial epic in the form of an escape Death. “
Telerama Gets with the vision of his colleagues: “skepticism and coldness thus contribute to raising First Man beyond the expected hagiography, for the benefit of real strangeness, and a great outfit.” For The worldif “Ryan Gosling undoubtedly finds one of his best roles” in the person of Neil Armstrong in First Man, the film by Damien Chazelle “mainly sins by his filial scruples to film ‘in the footsteps of his fathers in cinema (Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Philip Kaufman), giving the film a little air of deja vu. “
A challenge for Ryan Gosling
At LCI’s microphone, Ryan Gosling explains that Neil Armstrong’s role was a real challenge for him since it is an “iconic figure in history”. But that is not the only reason he felt some pressure. “The biggest challenge was to know that his sons were going to see this film. They were not going to see a film about an accomplishment, a historical figure but about their father, their mother and them.