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The Odyssey

L'odyssée

2016

Jérôme Salle

Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Benjamin Lavernhe ...

5.9

1,143

Adventure. Drama Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[A] sincere but lumbering Jacques Cousteau biopic (...) despite some lavish spectacle, Jérôme Salle’s watery biopic doesn’t make a case for it as the stuff of great cinema"
		Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter	"Visually striking, but plumbs no depths (...) there’s still enough underwater wonder to suggest something of the fascination and passion which drove Cousteau on"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'The Odyssey' is less an epic than a standard biopic"
		Cath Clarke The Guardian	"This conventional, unadventurous biopic ploddingly tells the story of the French ocean explorer and film-maker Jacques Cousteau – though the underwater sequences are stunning (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Parkinson Empire	"Cousteau lived an exciting, if sometimes tortuous life. But, while it's engagingly played by a solid cast, this respectful but hardly revelatory account lacks the narrative potency to recreate it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"This film about Jacques Cousteau never quite finds its sea legs with the main character (...) 'The Odyssey' becomes waterlogged in a strained family drama"

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