“Thomas Pesquet, objective France”, gain height

by time news

2023-04-25 08:04:21

It all starts with the experience of Thomas Pesquet, his view of the world, and of France, from space. He who, upon returning from a trip to the International Space Station (ISS), “become an Earthling again, but a slightly different Earthling. Who has seen and felt things that only 500 people have seen and felt”. With him, the documentary goes from the immensely large to the infinitely small to take a look at the French territory, affected in many ways and in many places by climate change.

Through well-informed back and forths, documentary filmmaker Vincent Pérazio (already director of Thomas Pesquet, Mars objectivein 2017) draws a skillful parallel between the observations of the astronaut – the photos, for example, of the thin blue bubble that surrounds our planet and protects us from the hostility of the vacuum of space – and the concrete reality of metropolitan and ultramarine France, distributed between three seas and three oceans.

Take the height to understand the challenges of global warming

Thomas Pesquet sometimes takes us into the crevasse of an alpine glacier which he had observed melting from space, sometimes at the top of the canopy of the Guadeloupe tropical forest, a unique sanctuary of biodiversity. From the Cupola – this timeless observation dome under which the tenants of the ISS can admire the surface of the blue planet – he could only distinguish the green contours nibbled away by deforestation, far from imagining life. which it housed.

By alternating striking images of the Camargue wetlands, taken at water level, and those, ultra-contrast, captured by Thomas Pesquet from space, this documentary forces its viewer to take a little height.

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