The Odyssey

2016

AdventureDrama

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.

Rating

6.671
418 votes

Popularity

1.1758

Origin & Countries

FR | fr | France

Production

Moana Films,Pan Européenne Production,Fidélité Films,Curiosa Films

Runtime

122 min.

Budget (M$)

9.7 / 20ROI 49%

Status

Released

Release: 10/12/2016

Credits

The Odyssey

Jérôme SalleDirector

The Odyssey

Lambert WilsonJacques-Yves Cousteau

The Odyssey

Pierre NineyPhilippe Cousteau

The Odyssey

Audrey TautouSimone Melchior Cousteau

The Odyssey

Laurent LucasPhilippe Tailliez

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

5/15/2024

6 / 10

Lambert Wilson is the innovative underwater explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau in this rather unremarkable depiction of his life and career. He is married to Simone (Audrey Tautou) but has a bit of a wandering eye so they become maritally estranged, even though they continue to live and workout on their converted WWII minesweeper "Calypso". Needless to say, this puts some strain on the rest of the family, not least upon his relationship with his publicity magnet, heart-throb, eldest Philippe (Pierre Niney). The latter man's character is used as a barometer a little here to measure the actions of his father. The exploration activities must face stark realities. Money is needed to buy the 1½ tons of fuel the ship needs each trip, and that's before wages and other costs associated with their more scientific endeavours have to be paid. This leads to Cousteau becoming more of a businessman with almost corporate responsibilities. It's those activities that see a split between father and son that lasts until a trip to the Antarctic that sees a well documented tragedy hit the family. For the most part this is a soap opera of a film with nowhere near enough focus on what made the man famous in the first place. There is some underwater photography to liven things up, and a sequence with an expanding group of sharks that's quite menacingly filmed, but there's not really enough of that to compensate for the listless melodrama that's played out. The camera does love Niney and Tautou, and Wilson is competent enough in what is essentially a light-weight and slightly adulatory tale of a man who was clearly much more interesting, flawed and charismatic than we see here.

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