Undistinguished melodrama which occasionally picks up with aviation material.
The opening champagne at the out of doors reception introduces flyer Bertoux who performs airobatics only to crash and burn leaving lover Ferrare to retrieve a flower from the embers.
At her Japanese decorated mansion, she is distraught, the lively society gatherings once held there give way to gloom. She resolves to revenge herself on the skies by becoming an aviator herself.
Our heroine abandons her elegance for a flying suit and goggles. At the airport she encounters pilots Murat and Vanel - who takes an interest in Ferrare and is slapped - vigorously. Vanel's squeeze Harald is scornful. There's some but patting comedy with the worker mechanics.
Ferrare does her initial flight "vers le soleil. Some striking aerial footage suggests a second unit.
Murat and Vanel get into an air field punch-up over her favours The rivalry is developed in uninvolving evening dress scenes in the studio built piano bar shot square on, as a Paris-Nice flight competition is proposed. Skulduggery follows with another crash.
Mustached Vanel's is the only performance to register. The in-camera effects work occasionally gets attention - the superimpositions of the propeller, the iris wipe anticipating PASSAGE to MARSEILLEor the shakey opening of the half frame black matte to reveal the secretary on the phone previously obscured. Nice shot of workers wheeling the big bi-plane out of the hanger. Script, design and cast are undistinguished. This one is mainly a relic.
The tinted copy Streamed on the Paris Cinémathèque Henri site was excellent.
The opening champagne at the out of doors reception introduces flyer Bertoux who performs airobatics only to crash and burn leaving lover Ferrare to retrieve a flower from the embers.
At her Japanese decorated mansion, she is distraught, the lively society gatherings once held there give way to gloom. She resolves to revenge herself on the skies by becoming an aviator herself.
Our heroine abandons her elegance for a flying suit and goggles. At the airport she encounters pilots Murat and Vanel - who takes an interest in Ferrare and is slapped - vigorously. Vanel's squeeze Harald is scornful. There's some but patting comedy with the worker mechanics.
Ferrare does her initial flight "vers le soleil. Some striking aerial footage suggests a second unit.
Murat and Vanel get into an air field punch-up over her favours The rivalry is developed in uninvolving evening dress scenes in the studio built piano bar shot square on, as a Paris-Nice flight competition is proposed. Skulduggery follows with another crash.
Mustached Vanel's is the only performance to register. The in-camera effects work occasionally gets attention - the superimpositions of the propeller, the iris wipe anticipating PASSAGE to MARSEILLEor the shakey opening of the half frame black matte to reveal the secretary on the phone previously obscured. Nice shot of workers wheeling the big bi-plane out of the hanger. Script, design and cast are undistinguished. This one is mainly a relic.
The tinted copy Streamed on the Paris Cinémathèque Henri site was excellent.
