El último vuelo de Hubert Le Blon
2014 · 9m · España
Directed by Koldo Almandoz
Genres: animation, biography, documentary
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
The story of a pioneer of the motor who as a child dreamed of dragonflies and died fulfilling his dream: an animated documentary that narrates the plane accident suffered by the aviator Le Blon on Concha beach in 1910 and that cost him his life, told from the point of view of Le Blon's wife.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's formally respectable but too reverent—a animated-doc biography that genuinely wants you to care about a dead aviator, which is exactly the kind of consensus play I'd expect everyone else to greenlight and I'd pass on.
Almandoz threads the needle between documentary specificity and animated lyricism, situating this 1910 tragedy within a lineage of biographical modernism that trusts the viewer to hold both the factual and the dreamlike; the decision to narrate through Le Blon's widow's perspective is the kind of formal restraint that elevates the elegiac.
The film lives or dies on a single formal choice—that the dragonfly childhood dream and the fatal flight collapse into one visual metaphor—and Almandoz commits to it so completely that a nine-minute unknown biography becomes something that feels inevitable and necessary.