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The Aeronauts – A Flight of Fancy With a Great Performance by Felicity Jones

by Sasha Stone
September 6, 2019
in TELLURIDE
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The Aeronauts – A Flight of Fancy With a Great Performance by Felicity Jones

Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts serves an important purpose as an aspirational film for young girls who either love science, or whose parents hope they see the movie and understand that women can be just as excited about taking a hero’s journey as any man can.

Felicity Jones plays Amelia Wren, a character based loosely on real life aeronaut Sophie Blanchard, who was well-known for embarking on elaborate balloon flights back in the 1800s. Jones teams up with her Oscar winning co-star from the Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne, who plays James Glaisher, a scientist interested in learning how to predict the weather. He needs to go up in a balloon, she is the best person for the job, thus begins their adventure.

The film flashes backward in time to show each character’s backstory to fill time in between scenes of Wren and Glaisher flying their balloon to great heights through storms and snow, sometimes catching moments of beauty, like butterflies somehow migrating at high altitudes. But when they push themselves too far and too high, they run into problems. It is then left to Wren to get them out of a pinch, save their lives, and land them safely on the ground.

Jones and Redmayne have so much genuine chemistry together, one might think this is going to be a love story, but it deliberately isn’t. This is a film about comrades who take flight, endanger their lives, and break records. The only passion is their shared passion for exploration. It is an interesting exercise, however, to leave all that good chemistry hanging literally in midair.

The best thing about the Aeronauts is how it looks. The production design by David Hindle and Christian Huband is exquisite. Alexandra Byrne’s costumes are lush and brightly colored. The balloon itself is magnificent, as are the vistas and cinematography by George Steele. It is a feast for the eyes from beginning to end and functions much like a modern-day, live-action fairy tale that celebrates women who once dared to get lifted into the upper atmosphere at a time when they weren’t even allowed to vote.

Redmayne is as good as he always is, but Felicity Jones takes it to a higher level as Wren. She apparently did much of her own stuntwork, including actually riding in dangerous floating hydrogen balloons instead of the less flammable hot air balloons of today. She plays a woman who is up for anything, is as smart as her male counterpart, and is physically and mentally fit to, as she says, “find her seat at the table.”

Even though other women were flying in balloons back before the dawn of atmospheric science, it is still a worthy effort to show more women scientists accomplishing astonishing things in film that most might have never expected to do in real life. It is meant to be a film that inspires young girls and nudge the perspectives of young boys, soaring in the realm of fantasy but grounded in reality. If boys can dream of doing great impossible things — well, so too can girls.

The Aeronauts is an Amazon release and heads into theaters December 6.

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