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After Damien Chazelle ("First Man"), Christopher Nolan ("Interstellar") or Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity"), it's time for James Gray to sign his epic space. In "Ad Astra", he follows an astronaut (Brad Pitt) who went to fetch his father, who had disappeared during a space mission.
Three years after The Lost City of Z , where an explorer finally evaporated into an inextricable jungle, abandoning woman and children, James Gray invites us to another quest for sonship, on the edge of space.
Roy McBride, played by Brad Pitt, goes there in search of his father, who died about twenty years earlier, between Jupiter and Neptune, a journey in which he will face troubling revelations.
For his first sci-fi film, the filmmaker was inspired by Joseph Conrad's book Au coeur des ténèbres , but also by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi.
The infinitely small of man and the infinitely great of the cosmos
Ad Astra mixes spectacular images of space and introspection of his character, an austere man, disconnected from his emotions, plunged into deep solitude.
The filmmaker embarks us for more than two hours, with Brad Pitt aboard this ship on a secret mission. It makes us experience everyday life in space, among other things during a spectacular weightless pursuit race.
James Gray films both the infinitely small, the tormented psyche of the hero and the infinitely great of the cosmos. Ad Astra is a film about hybris , the inextinguishable thirst for knowledge, domination and control of man. Because this odyssey of space is also an inner odyssey, as if the ultimate human adventure, today, was the conquest of oneself.