Cannes, Travolta and the Directorial Debut

With “Propeller one-way night coach,” John Travolta, a professional pilot with over 9,000 flight hours, makes his directorial debut, and the Cannes Film Festival is enveloped in curiosity and pleasant admiration

The passion for flying and cinema? Certainly, all of this matters a lot, to give rise to the origin of the film (out of competition), which Travolta presents at Cannes as a luxury debut, carving out a super cameo as a pilot, and including his daughter Elle Blue as a hostess in the cast. The mechanism is simple, a children’s book and a story to narrate and transform into a feature film. Travolta is absolutely at ease in the air, but only time, the temporal horizon, will serve as a mentor for what happens behind the camera, and he tells of a night flight, aided by a boy (Clark Shotwell) and his mother (Kelly Eviston-Quinnet) who, in the splendid era of the 50s, embarking on a flight to Hollywood, savor a different world, a sort of novel at 10,000 meters that will not only allow them to view life differently. First class or business will become the ticket to cross into a parallel, surprising, and bizarre world, beyond the clouds and everything that life away from the ground can offer. In a flight that will become a metaphor and a free manifesto to take off.

Seen for you by Mauro Lama