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.
Lambert Wilson plays Jacques Cousteau in Jérôme Salle's fantastic-looking but rather clichéd biopic.
When they’re actually underwater or on the ice or gliding through the air like pilots in an Antoine de Saint-Exupéry story, all their petty feuding is quickly forgotten and The Odyssey takes on, at least briefly, a magical quality.
A decent chronological info dump, but fails to get under the icon’s skin.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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