Poetry in motion picture

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 1999)

Le grand bleu is a love letter to the ocean. Luc Besson carries on this watery affair with Atlantis, a kind-of documentary hereby strongly recommended. What is it with this movie that hits you?? The characters aren't all that convincing, but the photography is pure poetry. And the mix of melancholy, hopeless love, and passion for the mysterious big blue, together with THAT music...wow. The ending may be downbeat, but who knows? He chooses to seize his real love, and we don't know what happens next. Maybe the fairy tale is true. The sea has a secret, you know...