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The Big Blue, released in French as Le Grand Bleu, is a drama, adventure, romance and biographical film directed by Luc Besson and released on 10 May 1988. Written by Jacques Mayol and Besson and produced by Patrice Ledoux and Besson, it stars Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Sergio Castellitto and Marc Duret, with a score by Éric Serra. Filmed in New York City, the Bahamas, Greece and Peru and set in Greece during the 1980s, it centres on subaquaria.
Made by Gaumont and Les Films du Loup across France, Italy and the United States on a budget of 13,500,000, it took 4,000,000 in revenue and runs 168 minutes. It was distributed by Gaumont and Netflix with the tagline "Danger...Like Passion...Runs Deep."
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7.5Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.
Cast
- Jean-Marc Barr as Jacques Mayol
- Jean Reno as Enzo Molinari
- Rosanna Arquette as Johana Baker
- Paul Shenar as Dr. Laurence
- Sergio Castellitto as Novelli
- Jean Bouise as Uncle Louis
Themes
- dying and death
- friendship
- suicide
- diving
- sports
- parent child relationship
- ocean
- italy
- competition
- oxygen
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Key facts
- French
- Le Grand Bleu
- Directed by
- Luc Besson
- Screenplay by
- Luc Besson Robert Garland Marilyn Goldin Jacques Mayol Marc Perrier
- Story by
- Luc Besson
- Produced by
- Patrice Ledoux
- Starring
- Rosanna Arquette Jean-Marc Barr Jean Reno Paul Shenar Sergio Castellitto Marc Duret Griffin Dunne
- Cinematography
- Carlo Varini
- Edited by
- Olivier Mauffroy
- Music by
- Éric Serra (original) Bill Conti (US version)
- Production company
- Gaumont
- Distributed by
- Gaumont Distribution (France) Weintraub Entertainment Group Columbia Pictures (United States) Filmauro (Italy)
- Release dates
- 11 May 1988 ( 1988-05-11 ) (France) 19 August 1988 ( 1988-08-19 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 168 minutes
- Countries
- France United States Italy
- Languages
- English Italian French
- Budget
- FRF 80 million , ( estimation</span>"}]]}'>est. US$13.5 million)
- Box office
- 9.2 million admissions (France) $4 million (worldwide)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Luc Besson
- Cast member
- Franco Diogene
- Composer
- Éric Serra
- Producer
- Luc Besson
- Production company
- Gaumont
- Narrative location
- Greece
- Filming location
- United States Virgin Islands
- Duration
- 132
- FilmAffinity ID
- 788134
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1988-09-29
- title
- Le Grand Bleu
- distributed by
- Netflix
- set in period
- 1980s
- set in environment
- subaquaria
- review score
- 35/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film co-written and directed by Luc Besson. Inspired by the Cinéma du look movement, the film is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker (played by Rosanna Arquette).
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