DIRECTED BY Jérôme Salle
STARRING Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas, Benjamin Lavernhe
COUNTRY France
YEAR 2016
GENRE Adventurous, Biographical
CATEGORY Film performance
A narrative and star-studded biography of the Cousteau family, which opened before our eyes the silent world beneath the sea. 1946. Thanks to the invention of scuba diving, Captain Jacques Cousteau is able to buy his dream villa on the Mediterranean. He initiates his sons Philippe and Jean-Michel into the secrets of diving and the miraculous world of silence. Jacques's desire for adventure and the conquest of the vast space beneath the water's surface disrupts the seemingly idyllic family life. He is willing to sacrifice everything for it. Even his relationship with the sensitive Philippe. Years later, a love of the ocean unites the two men. But the father wants to conquer them, the son to protect them.
