2023-05-19 16:21:44
“Flo” will be broadcast this Friday in Cannes. For months, the sailor’s family has been opposed to this feature film.
Flo, biopic by Florence Arthaud, will be presented this Friday at the Cannes Film Festival in a scent of controversy. The family of the French navigator, who died in 2015 at the age of 57 in a helicopter accident on the set of reality TV Dropped, has been opposing this feature film by Géraldine Danon for months. Starting with the athlete’s brother, Hubert Arthaud:
“It’s a project that completely misses the magic of the character,” he told BFMTV.
“They know a small part of Florence’s life,” he continues. “I am her brother; I know all of Florence’s life and the script that I read is frankly not up to par. It is totally distorted (…) in a sense that is not the reality.”
Action en justice
In April, a Paris court rejected an interim order brought by Florence Arthaud’s daughter, Marie Arthaud-Lingois, who wanted to obtain a copy of the screenplay. She maintained that certain elements of Yann Queffélec’s book The sea and beyondwhich inspired the feature film directed by Géraldine Danon, “damaged the memory” of his mother and feared that the script of the film “repeats these attacks”.
Marie Arthaud-Lingois mentioned in particular certain passages of the book where the navigator “is alcoholic, neglected or even lacking in notoriety”, and which gives “a bad image of her mother”. Justice had ruled by emphasizing that the book relates the life of Florence Arthaud “in the form of a fictionalized story” and that this story has “itself intended to serve as a new work of fiction”.
“I tell them to go see the film before talking about it”
Géraldine Danon herself maintained bonds of friendship with the navigator. The director is the wife of navigator Philippe Poupon and the couple was close to Florence Arthaud, the first woman to win the Route du Rhum in 1990.
The filmmaker, in Cannes for the presentation of her film – out of competition – spoke at the microphone of BFMTV on the criticisms of which it is the subject:
“It’s a shame and it saddens me, but I tell them to go see the film before talking about it. I think it’s a very nice tribute to Florence Arthaud.”
“I show a luminous Florence Arthaud, a woman in all her complexity”, she defends herself. It is a portrait of a woman, but above all (a woman) joyful who loves life, extreme, and an icon.”
It is the actress Stéphane Caillard who lends her features to Florence Arthaud. She replies to Alexis Michalik, Alison Wheeler and Pierre Deladonchamps. Flo is due in theaters on November 29.
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