The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
Jrme Salle's big-budget biopic L'Odysse is at its best when recreating Cousteau's oceanic adventures.
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Ed Potton
RTThe Times (UK)Aug 23, 2017
Sunbeams illuminating tropical fish, sea lions shimmying through a kelp forest -- some of the underwater photography is gorgeous in Jrme Salle's glossy French-language biopic of Jacques Cousteau.
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Cath Clarke
RTGuardianAug 18, 2017
This conventional, unadventurous biopic ploddingly tells the story of the French ocean explorer and film-maker Jacques Cousteau - though the underwater sequences are stunning.
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Diana Tuova
RTSpotlight on FilmAug 4, 2024
The audience will leave the theatre knowing more or less of Cousteau’s main accomplishments, but the personality of Cousteau will remain to them as enigmatic as ever.