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The Big Blue (1988)

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(Le grand bleu)


Country: FR/US/IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/2.2:1 168m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis:

Two boys grow up together on a Greek island with a prodigious - and competitive - skill for free diving. As adults their rivalry increases in seriousness as they attempt to beat each other in increasingly dangerous record depths and endurance.

Review:

The director's hymn to his passion for the aquatic life lapses frequently into commonplace and there are a good too many shots of dolphins. It is beautifully shot, rather like a commercial for Milk Tray, and there are occasional glimpses of Rosanna Arquette which ground us in the reassuringly mundane next to all the macho posturing, but the length is ultimately self-defeating.

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(Le grand bleu)


Country: FR/US/IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/2.2:1 168m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis:

Two boys grow up together on a Greek island with a prodigious - and competitive - skill for free diving. As adults their rivalry increases in seriousness as they attempt to beat each other in increasingly dangerous record depths and endurance.

Review:

The director's hymn to his passion for the aquatic life lapses frequently into commonplace and there are a good too many shots of dolphins. It is beautifully shot, rather like a commercial for Milk Tray, and there are occasional glimpses of Rosanna Arquette which ground us in the reassuringly mundane next to all the macho posturing, but the length is ultimately self-defeating.

(Le grand bleu)


Country: FR/US/IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/2.2:1 168m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis:

Two boys grow up together on a Greek island with a prodigious - and competitive - skill for free diving. As adults their rivalry increases in seriousness as they attempt to beat each other in increasingly dangerous record depths and endurance.

Review:

The director's hymn to his passion for the aquatic life lapses frequently into commonplace and there are a good too many shots of dolphins. It is beautifully shot, rather like a commercial for Milk Tray, and there are occasional glimpses of Rosanna Arquette which ground us in the reassuringly mundane next to all the macho posturing, but the length is ultimately self-defeating.

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