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The Big Blue
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Johana Baker
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Dr. Laurence
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Uncle Louis
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Roberto
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Duffy
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Priest
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Bonita
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Sally
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Alfredo
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La Mamma (Enzo's Mother)
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Bruce Guerre-Berthelot | ... |
Young Jacques
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Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the ... Written by Reiner Rosin <rosin@mi-lab.fh-furtwangen.de>
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Release Date:
27 September 2002 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
FRF 80,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$14,234 (USA) (14 July 2000)Gross:
$80,804 (USA) (25 August 2000)Company Credits
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Johanna: Oh yeah? And what world are you from Enzo?
Enzo: Italia!
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Lyrics by Luc Besson
Composed by Eric Serra
Performed by Eric Serra
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Jacques takes off his sneakers, then jumps into the pool with his sneakers on (although in the director's Cut we see him replace his shoes). See more »Quotes
Enzo: Dont think of Jacques as a human being, he's from another world.Johanna: Oh yeah? And what world are you from Enzo?
Enzo: Italia!
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"MY LADY BLUE"Lyrics by Luc Besson
Composed by Eric Serra
Performed by Eric Serra
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THE movie that made Besson go down in history. A key-movie that divided the French public between the ones who saw on it, only a tedious documentary about the ocean and the others who acclaimed this passionating movie. As far as I'm concerned, I rank in the second category. "Le grand bleu", it's simply a periphrase with a tinge of euphemism to design the ocean, a universe that always inspired to men fear but also fascination. The two main characters, Jacques Maillol and Enzo Molinari are fascinated by the sea but for different reasons. If Reno devotes all his energies to diving so as to access to success and glory, the sea is more than this for Jacques. He was born with it, he swears by it (so much that he neglects Johanna's love) and the sea will lead him to death. A place of athletic competition, an ideal place for rest and entertaining where dolphins are his real and sole friends, finally the eternal heaven, the ocean epitomizes all this to Jacques. "le grand bleu" also ranks among the movies that you must watch rather than telling it. Of course, there isn't almost any plot, dialogs are short and rare but pictures are gorgeous enough to create an entrancing climate supported by Eric Serra's mesmerizing music. The movie's technical qualities can only arouse admiration: a shiny photography that perfectly reflects the color of the sea, the blue and a fluid making sometimes clever: Jacques' childhood is made in black and white. Besides, the movie enabled to discover two outstanding actors: Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno but oddly if Reno became one of the most popular French actors, it wasn't the case with Barr. In spite of a promising debut, he has never be able to make a movie that could have got back him in the saddle. Maybe was he so elated at the bottom of the sea, in heaven where everything is fine...