The Big Blue (Long Version) (DVD)

...have come to love. The story in its simplicity is that of Jacques and his love of the sea and its creatures but also draws in Enzo a champion freediver and someone who has known Jacques since childhood, and Johana an american Insurance worker who meets Jacques in Peru where his bodily responses to being underwater and at depth are being monitored by a scientist. The plot as it is is sadly weak meaning the film relies on the gorgeous scenery of ...
...Johana, but this is not the love story of Jacques and Johana but of Jacques and the sea, as such you are forced to recognise that Johana is more an accessory than a pivotal part of the story and it is the sea and his underwater family of dolphins that Jacques truely loves. At 163 minutes long this is a long time to be watching a film which consists of little more than scenery but some how there is something more to it, a sense that in some way it ...

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First let me give you the film details : The Big Blue – Le Grand Bleu 2h35 (long version) Directed by : Luc Besson (Subway, Leon, 5th Element) Starring : - Jean-Marc Barr - Jean Reno - Rosanna Arquette Music by : Eric Serra Certificate 15 due to some scenes of sexual nature. This movie is available on DVD in all good stores best I have found : - Sainsbury : £6.99 including p&P - ChoiceDirect :£5.09 including p&p Before I start this review, ...
...long time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Story ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The movie starts in black and white, we are on a small mediterranean island, we are following a young boy walking on the top of a cliff. Jacques Mayol (Eugene Guerre-Berthelot) is a young Frenchman living in on a Greek Island with his dad and uncle. His dad is a sponge harvester. He dives and harvest sponges from rocks. The whole family lives in a small house perched on a cliff, they depend exclusively ...

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...1988's 'Le Grande Bleue'. At the end, as you draw in a deep breath, you're convinced you've watched something of great depth and meaning, but only in hindsight does it strike you that the only thing in the movie with any great character is the ocean itself. A truly massive triumph of style over substance, 'Le Grande Bleue' is certainly a visual tour de force, even if repeated viewings highlight the vague characterisations of the leads. Jacques ...
...accident. With few friends, besides the great expanse of the Mediterranean Sea, Jacques retreats further inside of himself, allowing occasional friend, the Italian Enzo (Jean Reno) to be the extrovert. Years pass and the next time we encounter Jacques is deep in Peru. An insurance investigator arrives at a scientific research base to oversee a claim for a vehicle lost in the icy waters of a lake. The American investigator, Johana Baker (Rosanna ...

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...17 years old, living in the south of Italy. One evening, a holidaymaker projects a small film in which appears a perfect unknown man but who breathes in and out happiness, without oxygen, it is Jacques Mayol. Luc Besson is filled with wonder, and as of the following day he decides to be tested on how long he can hold his breath for and already is able to take it for 4 minutes and to go down up to forty meters. But it is only when Mayol has just crossed ...
...film of it. He directed the spectacle in such manners he put in scene rather strange characters, kind of romantic Martians deliberately beside their time and the common direction. That is what makes the film a real and pure beauty. It is firstly and simply the story of a young boy called Jacques Mayol whose father died while working away under the sea. Jacques has the unique chance to hold his breath and go under water (mainly to feed fishes) ...

alexandrapontecaille 03.09.2001 · Read full review
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...reaching deeper without oxygen is the purpose. But mainly to tell the world the story of Jacques Mayol (the main charachter wich is also technical consultant for the movie). and his discovery of life outside the water... Great performace of Jean Réno one of the most used actors of Luc Besson. The story starts with two kids Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari, a french skinny guy and an strong fat italian, but two very good divers, they don't hate each ...
...help the others, while Enzo will do everything for money and to be one of the best! Then one day while Jacques wents to help is father and is uncle with the fishing is father as an accident and dies... there with Jacques screaming on the boat, the camera moves trough the water surface and movie goes from Black & White to Colours and it goes to the adult life of Jacques and Enzo. Enzo is in Italy and his hired to rescue a diver from a shipwreck and ...

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