{"id":22547,"date":"2025-06-17T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=22547"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:46:23","slug":"the-big-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-big-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BIG BLUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #660084; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22548\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thebigblue-226x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thebigblue-226x350.jpg 226w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thebigblue-600x927.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thebigblue.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>THE BIG BLUE<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n| 1988 \u2013 168\u2032 \u2013 Adventures, Drama, Romance, Sport, Nature &amp; Environment, Classic.<br \/>\nWritten by: Luc Besson, Robert Garland, Marilyn Goldin, Marc Perrier, Jacques Mayol.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Luc Besson.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Jean-Marc Barr,\u00a0Jean Reno,\u00a0Rosanna Arquette, Jean Bouise, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Griffin\u00a0Dune, Marc Duret, Kimberly Beck.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1988.\u00a08 C\u00e9sar Awards nominations (1989). Winner 2\u00a0C\u00e9sar Awards.<br \/>\nIn English.<br \/>\nAn Itala release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/>\nLuc Besson&#8217;s director&#8217;s cut The Big Blue charts the competition and friendship of real-life champions Jacques Mayol (played by Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed in the film to &#8220;Enzo Molinari&#8221;, and played by Reno). However the divers were not close in age in real life (four years apart) and did not compete. The action is divided into two timelines &#8211; the nascent rivalry between the two divers as children, and (as adults) their final competition at the world free-diving championships at the Sicilian town of Taormina. Mayol&#8217;s search for love, family, &#8220;wholeness&#8221; and the meaning of life and death is a strong undercurrent of the latter timeline.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B0F3GPVZCK\/ref=atv_sr_fle_c_sr4e8ffb_1_1_1?sr=1-1&amp;pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&amp;pageTypeId=B0F3H4QQ53&amp;qid=1750005355818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BIG BLUE | 1988 \u2013 168\u2032 \u2013 Adventures, Drama, Romance, Sport, Nature &amp; Environment, Classic. Written by: Luc Besson, Robert Garland, Marilyn Goldin, Marc Perrier, Jacques Mayol. Directed by:\u00a0Luc Besson. Starring:\u00a0Jean-Marc Barr,\u00a0Jean Reno,\u00a0Rosanna Arquette, Jean Bouise, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Griffin\u00a0Dune, Marc Duret, Kimberly Beck. Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1988.\u00a08 C\u00e9sar Awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,24,11,115,45,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-classic","category-drama","category-nature-environment","category-romance","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22549,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions\/22549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}