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.
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| Lambert Wilson | ... | Jacques-Yves Cousteau | |
| Pierre Niney | ... | Philippe Cousteau | |
| Audrey Tautou | ... | Simone Cousteau | |
| Laurent Lucas | ... | Philippe Tailliez | |
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Benjamin Lavernhe | ... | Jean-Michel Cousteau |
| Vincent Heneine | ... | Albert 'Bébert' Falco | |
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Thibault de Montalembert | ... | Etienne Deshaies |
| Roger Van Hool | ... | Daniel Cousteau dit Daddy | |
| Chloe Hirschman | ... | Jan Cousteau | |
| Adam Neill | ... | David Wolper | |
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Olivier Galfione | ... | Frédéric Dumas |
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Martin Loizillon | ... | Henri Plé |
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Ulysse Stein | ... | Philippe Cousteau (enfant) |
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Rafaël de Ferran | ... | Jean-Michel Cousteau (enfant) |
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Chloe Williams | ... | Eugénie Clark |
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From 1949 to 1979, thirty years in the life of captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the famous researcher, scientist, inventor, filmmaker whose greatest achievement is to have made the general public more curious - and accordingly closer - to the sea. A genius, a leader of men and a charismatic opinion maker, Cousteau was not without defects, his being unfaithful to ever-supportive wife Simone for example or else his vainglory..., but let him who is without sin cast the first stone. The spectator leaves Cousteau in mid-1979 at the worst time of his life: his favorite son, Philippe, has just died in the crash of a plane he was piloting. The dashing conqueror of the sea has suddenly become a broken old man, tempted to discouragement but his eldest son Jean-Michel is by his side to help him overcome his grief and go on with his mission... Written by Guy Bellinger
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EUR20,000,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau: With this equipment we can breathe underwater, free as a fish without effort. Thanks to this invention, man can live up to his century-old dream. Fly. Because once underwater, you're totally weightless. From above, you have your beautiful sunlight and you are getting dark blue. You swim between those two worlds, far from the people, the noise, silent. And the sea... The sea surrounds you, carries you...See more »
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California DreaminWritten by John Phillips & Michelle Phillips
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If like me you were just periphically aware of Jaques Cousteau, this movie will you an insight. To the man, to the dreams and to his accomplishments, against all odds and all that. I mean some of the dialog (which may or may not be exaggerated) with film producers is just (comedy) gold. But you can see why they only had profit in their mind and he was out there for a different purpose. Now he was able to move his goals/dreams or make them bigger, by thinking outisde the box (no pun intended).
The movie is in french but there are quite a few scenes that are also in english. The main thing is, we get an insight into how he became who many got to know or read upon later on. Also an "influencer" as some might call him nowadays. An inspiring movie, that tells us to reach for the stars or the bottom of the sea - whichever is closer to your heart!