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The Big Blue
1988
Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available. Jacques (Barr, BREAKING THE WAVES) and his friendly rival Enzo (Reno, THE PROFESSIONAL) are considered masters of free-.. Read more
| Starring | Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar |
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| Director | Luc Besson |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Romance |
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The Big Blue
Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available.
Jacques (Barr, BREAKING THE WAVES) and his friendly rival Enzo (Reno, THE PROFESSIONAL) are considered masters of free-diving and have made a career out of this one-of-a-kind competition. Jacques feels an unusual bond with the sea and Enzo is in it for the sheer danger involved. A new dimension of their lifelong rivalry is generated by the beautiful Johana (Arquette, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN) who leaves her career in New York to accompany the two men on the international diving circuit. Beautiful underwater cinematography and a stunning score enrich Besson's celebrated English-language debut.
| Starring | Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Kimberly Beck, Griffin Dunne, Valentina Vargas, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouise, David Brisbin, Marc Duret, Andreas Voutsinas |
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| Director | Luc Besson |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 43 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | French |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: French, Dutch |
| Released | DVD: 30 Jun 2003 Blu-ray: 14 Sep 2009 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
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Action director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) pays homage to the ocean-exploring documentaries of Jacques Cousteau with this stunning, if slightly pretentious, underwater cult epic. The story — about two rival free divers (Besson regular Jean Reno and Jean-Marc Barr) competing for the depth record — is a little shallow, and Rosanna Arquette's role as a New York insurance investigator who meets Barr in Peru does seem rather like an afterthought. But Reno mines great humour from his macho mother's-boy role, Barr looks impossibly handsome, and the sensational ocean photography is absolutely magnificent — the first plunge into the watery alien blackness is pure cinematic magic.
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The action centres on the rivalry between free-divers Barr and Reno - they dive deep without an aqualung - which... read more on Time Out
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26 out of 27 people found this review helpful
Don't believe the reviews above!
This is a truly wonderful film. I loved every minutre of it and made my wife watch it. 'One of the best films I have ever seen' she said! Photography is stunning, music is wonderful and the plot, though gentle, is actually quite gripping. Everyone I know who has seen it has loved it. The girls will adore Jean-Marc Barr ('a truly beautiful man') and the boys will love all the diving and the delicious Rosanna Arquette. Rent it NOW!!!!
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If you watch it, it's for the photography
The story of two childhood friends who used to compete at free diving and who return again in the future to compete as men.
The story sounds dull and it is. I do enjoy long films but at nearly three hours long this way is too much, which is mainly due to the fact that nothing really happens in terms of story that couldn't be done in a lot less. The cinematography is the only thing that I found of interest in the film with some great underwater photography and scenery shots, that is not to say that the acting is poor because it isn't, it's the story that is relatively dull. -
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