Film review: Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones reunite for Tom Harper's TheAeronauts
Just one question of apparel looms large while watching this exhilarating account of a record-setting flight by two pioneer hot air balloonists in 1862: If one were planning to ascend to the unprecedented altitude of seven miles above sea level, wouldn’t one think to bring gloves?achieves impressive elevation as a bracing and sympathetic account of two early and very different aviators who together reached literal new heights in a perilous field of endeavor.
But he’s right in asking, in that entertaining the crowd is hardly the reason the flight is taking place. As is conveyed in one of numerous flashbacks that not only help to explain the circumstances of the flight but fill out the running time beyond the one-hour duration of the voyage, James’ mission means to legitimize the study of weather to the stuffy old guard — something surprisingly considered to be not feasible or useful as recently as 160 years ago.
The flashbacks thus provide a smidgen of personal information while allowing the flight and story to jump ahead a bit as the balloon rises gracefully into the blue and, eventually, into the clouds. To record their arrival at ever-greater altitudes, the aeronauts toss pigeons out of the basket with tags attached to them. But when, in a great if slightly morbid gag, Emilia drops another bird over the side and it drops like a rock, they know they’re achieving seriously thinner air.
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