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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau
Simone Melchior Cousteau
Philippe Tailliez
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Albert 'Bébert' Falco
Etienne Deshaies
Daniel Cousteau dit Daddy
Jan Cousteau
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 h...
Status Released
Original LanguageFrench
Budget$20,000,000.00
Revenue $9,722,918.00