The Big Blue (Le grand bleu) (1988)

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"rewatched DVD 14/10/24 8/10"

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" The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film in the French Cinéma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson. It is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship wit"

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" The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film in the French Cinéma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson. It is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship wit"

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"My rating: 7/10 (Director's cut) (aka Le grand bleu) "

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"Deep diving like it was meant to be seen. Epic and tragic."

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" Cast : Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette What was it about? The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown. My two cents: When this movie was released in France, it was actually poorly received by the critics but, eventually, it turned out to be a massive box-office success and it is now considered a French classic. Well, personally, I always had some mixed fee"

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A classic

“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and I should definitely rewatch it at some point. Anyway, when it was released in France, it was actually poorly  received by the critics but, eventually, it turned out to be a massive box-office success and it is now considered a French classic. Well, personally, I have actually always had some mixed feelings about the damned thing. I mean, like all the movies directed by Luc Besson, it was quite ambitious, visually really impressive and the soundtrack provided by Eric Serra was quite mesmerizing as well. And yet, it did kind of rub me in the wrong way. Indeed, like most of the work coming from this director, the whole thing felt rather pretentious to me. I mean, after all these years, I still don’t know what to think of th” read more