Under Paris
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| Under Paris | |
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| French | Sous la Seine |
| Directed by | Xavier Gens |
| Written by | Yannick Dahan Xavier Gens Maud Heywang Yaël Langmann |
| Starring | Bérénice Bejo Nassim Lyes Anne Marivin Aurélia Petit |
| Cinematography | Nicolas Massart |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €19,600,000[1] |
Under Paris (French: Sous la Seine) is a 2024 French action-horror film co-written and directed by Xavier Gens. the film was released on June 3, 2024 by Netflix and compared to 1975 film Jaws [2][3]
Plot[edit]
Near the Great Pacific garbage patch, marine researcher Sophia Assalas and her team search for Lilith, a tagged mako shark. Leading the dive team, her husband locates Lilith, discovering her to have grown much larger since she was last sighted, before Lilith kills him and the rest of the divers. Leaving the safety of the boat, Sophia goes after Lilith, but almost drowns as the shark escapes into the depths.
Three years later, Sophia works at an aquarium in Paris. Mika, an environmentalist, informs Sophia that Lilith's tracking beacon is still active and that she has travelled up the River Seine and is seemingly trapped in the city. After a man is found dead with shark bites, police diver Adil recruits Sophia to help find and kill the shark, but Mika and her girlfriend Ben turn off the beacon before they can do so in the hope that they can rescue her later. Mika then reveals Lilith's existence to the public, and leads a group of supporters into the city's catacombs to find her. Ben tells Sophia of Mika's plan, and she and Adil's team head down into the catacombs to find them.
Before they can evacuate everyone, Lilith arrives with its offspring, a juvenile shark in tow. Lilith kills Mika, causing a panic that leads to several deaths, including Ben and a member of Adil's team, and others are left dismembered by the sharks. In the aftermath Sophia and Adil find the juvenile shark dead, and after examining it discover that it has mutated to adapt to fresh water and that it is pregnant due to parthenogenesis, and that if not caught Lilith may give birth to more mutated offspring. The Mayor of Paris orders them to quickly kill the shark, but refuses to cancel a triathlon to be held in the river.
Sophia and Adil plan to lure Lilith out of the catacombs and blow her up with explosives. Underwater, they encounter a large school of juvenile sharks as they set up their trap. Despite losing the rest of their team, the explosives go off successfully, killing the school of sharks but Lilith survives. She heads towards the triathlon, killing several swimmers before the military attacks her. The disturbance in the water from their gunfire and Lilith's movements causes unexploded ordnance at the bottom of the river to unsettle and detonate, leading to a chain reaction of explosions that creates a tsunami that floods Paris and kills the Mayor. Sophia and Adil are left stranded in the middle of the river, surrounded by Lilith and the juvenile sharks that have survived the explosions.
Cast[edit]
- Bérénice Bejo as Sophia
- Nassim Lyes as Adil
- Anne Marivin as the Mayor of Paris
- Aurélia Petit
- Lea Leviant as Mika
Reception[edit]
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 63% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 6.0/10.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Boisclair, Marc (22 April 2024). "« Sous la Seine » : Netflix accusé de plagiat et une demande pour l'annulation de la sortie du film de requins de Xavier Gens" ["Under Paris": Netflix accused of plagiarism and a request for the cancellation of the release of the shark film by Xavier Gens]. Horreur Québec (in French).
- ^ "Under Paris: Why a French film about a killer shark in the Seine is the popcorn movie of the summer so far". BBC News.
- ^ "Under Paris: Netflix has delivered one of the best shark movies ever made". The Guadian.
- ^ "Under Paris". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
External links[edit]
- Under Paris at IMDb
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