cinéma

In rural France, Christophe (10) tries to live up to his rigid and distant father on the family farm. But the young boy starts to lean over and collapse without warning — on the tractor, at school, at dinner...

A doctor finds the solution: Christophe must wear an iron corset to keep himself upright. Forced to reinvent his life away from the farm, Christophe discovers a new passion for music, meets a new friend, and follows her into his first mischief.

But will any of this really fix what is out of balance?

Christophe, fils d’agriculteur de 10 ans, tente de se montrer à la hauteur de son père, un homme rigide et distant. Mais le jeune garçon se met soudain à pencher et à s’effondrer sans prévenir, sur le tracteur, à l’école, à table...

Un médecin trouve la solution : Christophe devra porter un corset de fer pour rester bien droit.
Contraint de se réinventer une vie  loin des siens et de la ferme familiale en pleine modernisation forcée. Il découvre alors la musique, se lie d’amitié avec une fille, un peu plus agée que lui, qui lui montre la voie de l’émancipation.

Mais tout cela suffira-t-il à rétablir l’équilibre perdu ?

A project as crazy as it was deadly was born in the early days of aviation in the 1920s: L’Aéropostale. They needed pilots - young guys who had everything to prove and nothing to lose. And all this to honour the promise of faster mail.

Paul Jouve, a young ex-Air Force officer, proves to be the best pioneer of the skies. Against nature and against mechanics, he always delivers mail to its destination. Captivated by his conquests and prodigies, he sees only the success of the airline: Faster. Further. The dawn of progress.

But a few years later, with many pilots now dead and the world still reeling from the 1930s Wall Street Crash, l’Aéropostale is at the brink of bankruptcy. Jouve is forced to question the true meaning of his idealism.

Auguste Bartholdi, a shy, naive young sculptor, pursues his career under his mother's watchful eye. His dream : to build the world's tallest sculpture, the Statue of Liberty.

While he struggles to find a fitting muse for his future masterpiece's face, his brother descends into madness, threatening the Bartholdi family's serene ascension to glory.