See You Up There

1/15/2022

An extremely stylish film showing remarkable cinematographic creativity and vision, even if the story does not truly measure up to the visuals. 8/10

6/13/2026

**How a Film is Made** Here is a film crafted with pure talent, overflowing creativity, an exceptional cast, and dazzling camera work. The director—who also stars in it and wrote the screenplay, adapting a novel—Albert Dupontel has the virtue of telling us, in a comedic tone (sometimes employing dark humor), the drama of the war's forgotten, the "cannon fodder" of armies who are neglected and abandoned by officers, the healthcare system, governments, and a whole network of scoundrels who profit from the postwar. Fortunately, neither the synopsis nor the trailer reveals or suggests anything about the plot, which is very, very original. I believe this film should be seen with the least possible plot information, because the novel by Pierre Lemaitre has been transferred to the screenpla