When, in 1932, 10 year old Max is woken up by an airplane landing right by his parents' house, he does not suspect that his encounter with Antoine, the pilot, will not only open him to the beauties of the world, but will also follow him from second World War, to the jail of Pinochet's Chile, up to present times.
Neither does he know that a book, "Le Grand Meaulnes", will be the missing link between him and Antoine, who is the hero of this book.
Constantly shifting from Chile in the '30s and the '70s to the Second World War in London, Raoul Ruiz takes us on a very personal film where a novel gradually takes hold of reality, throughout the century. |