INDEPENDENT FILM FOR INDEPENDENT MINDS

Based on a novelized account of the lonely death of pioneer aviator Bill Lancaster, who vanished in 1933 in the Sahara during a flight from England to Cape Town, the movie relates the efforts of his (fictional) mistress Marie (Marion Cotillard) to rescue him and her encounter with Antoine (Guillaume Canet), a young French army officer. Marie attaches herself to a punitive expedition sent against Tuareg rebels. When Antoine, who already has started to go native, deserts to help her track down the missing airman, they set off on an odyssey through the sand dunes.