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Alicia Vikander | ... | Danielle Flinders | |
Celyn Jones | ... | Thumbs | |
Jannik Schümann | ... | Paul | |
Jean-Pierre Lorit | ... | Captain Anctil | |
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Marie-Anne Cambon Bonavita | ... | Science Officer Marie-Anne |
Andrea Guasch | ... | Maria | |
Adam Quintero | ... | Gustavo | |
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David Lajoie | ... | Ifremer Crew |
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Julien Bouanich | ... | Jonas |
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Thibaut Evrard | ... | René |
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Guillaume de Parceval | ... | Ifremer Crew |
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Loïc Corbery | ... | Étienne (as Loïc Corbery de la Comédie Française) |
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Franck Rosazza | ... | Franck |
James McAvoy | ... | James More | |
Godehard Giese | ... | Wolfgang |
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
I watched it at Göteborg film festival som days ago. I really wanted to like this but its just didnt click for me.
The actors fail to sell the love story, they dont connect on the screen and that technobabble from Alicia Vikanders character doesnt make it better.
Two parallell stories at once. For this to work the love story need to be sold, but it just doesnt work. I dont belive it when the main characters get outburst, the reaction feels to theatric and it becomes a make belive reaction for show.
To really make the terrorist look bad and evil they put in things that just oversell the evilness of the terrorist. Yes I get it, they are the badguys but it becomes a bit to much.
Sorry. I really wanted to enjoy this but it didnt work for me.