Directed by:
Jérôme SalleCinematography:
Matias BoucardComposer:
Alexandre DesplatCast:
Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas, Benjamin Lavernhe, Vincent Heneine, Thibault de Montalembert, Roger van Hool, Chloe Hirschman (more)VOD (1)
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Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family - Jacques, his wife Simone and their two children Philippe and Jean-Michel - live in their beautiful house by the Mediterranean sea. By day they dive, by night they watch the stars. It's paradise on earth. But Jacques is never content. He lives and breathes adventure and believes absolutely in the virtues of progress. With his invention, the aqualung, his recently acquired vessel the Calypso, and a crew of free-spirited adventurers he is ready to cross the world's oceans. Ten years later, back from the boarding school to which he was sent with Jean-Michel, Philippe finds his father greatly altered – an international celebrity with megalomaniac dreams of grafting gills to humans and creating underwater cities. Jacques cannot see it yet, but Philippe already understands that progress and pollution have begun to lay waste to the submarine world. Despite their mutual love and admiration, violent conflict between these two passionate men is inevitable. But on their greatest adventure together aboard the Calypso, in Antarctica, they will find each other - before tragedy strikes. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
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The premise to this story is so long that it could be put into two book sagas. But once the story started, I got lost. I got lost in the story which could have been interesting but unfortunately was unbelievable boring. Thanks God for the beautiful undersea shots, which made me hold my breath with wonder. So overall it was worth to watch this movie, but I expected more.
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A barren family drama, but a really nice hanger for paintings. A neatly spruced up biography of a troubled and fascinating man who never dives completely alive above the surface, but moves beneath it exactly as elegantly as Jacques demanded of his divers. By far the most interesting character and acting performance goes to Simone Audrey Tautou. She deserves even more screen time. I consider Sall's film more as a time-relevant reminder of a family that has done quite a major piece of work for our understanding of the Earth. Otherwise, Odyssey is more of an example of overly reverent and non-conflicting filmmaking, which is nice to look at. [70%]
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