A little scandal
Selected at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in the “Beach Cinema” section, the biopic on Florence Arthaud Flo will have its world premiere there. The great French sailor, the first woman to win the prestigious Rum route in 1990, he tragically lost his life on March 9, 2015 a helicopter crash with nine other people, including swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine, during the production of the TF1 show fallen.
Eight years after the tragedy, the pain is still strong for his loved ones and his family, and a priori it is not Flo that will calm the hearts. Indeed, Hubert Arthaud, brother of Florence Arthaud, read the script and expressed on the microphone of France 3 all the evil that thought about it.
In contrast to the director
Actress and director, Géraldine Danon directs Flo. A priori an interesting choice, given that since 2006 she has been the wife of the navigator Philippe Poupon, after having shared the life of Titouan Lamazou, she has long been immersed in the nautical world. With Philippe Poupon, since 2009, you document their sailing expeditions Australian flower.
He has made more than twenty documentaries for television on this subject, many of which have been and still are audience successes. However, the Arthaud family doesn’t really have it in their heart. Hubert Arthaud puts it this way:
Géraldine Danon, who claims to be a great friend of the family, was just a friend who came to the house from time to time, but nothing more. On the other hand Poupon, yes, he was a great friend of Florence since they went shopping together.
He even specifies that his sister “he never wanted Géraldine to make this film“.
A distorted narrative
Flo it has a very attractive cast. In the title role we find Stéphane Caillard, notably seen in The Lyonnais AND Fury. Around her, Samuel Jouy, Alison Wheeler, Alexis Michalik and Pierre Deladonchamps, or even Charles Berling. Experienced actors and actresses who, according to Hubert Arthaud, will animate a story far from reality. Especially on one very specific point, a traffic accident experienced by Florence Arthaud when she was a student. It seems that in the script she is driving, while in reality she was just a passenger.
Her skull was fractured and she was relatively injured, while the two in front were belted up and had nothing. Her famous friend is a vet. Marie (Florence Arthaud’s daughter, ed) had contacted him to make a statement, she found it ridiculous to distort the truth since in fact, in the film, this passage becomes “Florence drives the car, has a bottle of rum in hand, completely stuffed, and it was she who caused the accident.”
Specifies that the screenplay, adapted from the book The sea and beyond by Yann Queffélec, has been read by several sailors, and that many have said “disgusted“.
Hubert Arthaud, as well as in particular Florence Arthaud’s daughterMarie, accuse the film Flo give a “bad picture” and to expose of “degrading manner“the life of the missing navigator. Suffice it to say that his presentation at the 76th Cannes Film Festival risks being stormy…
Source: Cine Serie
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