{"id":583,"date":"2021-10-30T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2021-10-30T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T13:15:13","slug":"the-odyssey-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Odyssey <\/strong>(French title: L’odyss\u00e9e<\/strong>) is a 2016 French<\/strong>–Belgian <\/strong>biographical adventure film directed by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Salle<\/strong> and written by Salle and Laurent Turner, based on the non-fiction book Capitaine de La Calypso<\/strong> by Albert Falco<\/strong> and Yves Paccalet<\/strong>. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, and Audrey Tautou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The film follows\u00a0Jacques-Yves Cousteau<\/strong><\/a>, a French ocean-going adventurer, biologist, and filmmaker. It sticks to historical events<\/strong>, and was based on documentation <\/strong>and interviews <\/strong>with people who worked <\/strong>with Cousteau<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau on his boat “Calypso”.<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

n 1949<\/strong>, Cousteau <\/strong>was an eccentric naval officer <\/strong>in France<\/strong>, with a beautiful oceanside house, who wanted to be a pilot<\/strong>. But he quits the Navy<\/strong> to explore and document the ocean<\/strong>. His boat, Calypso<\/strong>, was a 1941 minesweeper<\/strong>. The film is a biopic covering aquatic adventures <\/strong>over thirty years. Cousteau <\/strong>is revealed to be an adventurer but also an inventor. He designed the autonomous regulator, but also had romantic views of colonising the sea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacques Cousteau underwater statue near the coast of Guadeloupe <\/span><\/strong>
in the\u00a0Caribbean. <\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Odyssey (French title: L’odyss\u00e9e) is a 2016 French–Belgian biographical adventure film directed by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Salle and written by Salle and Laurent Turner, based on the non-fiction book Capitaine de La Calypso by Albert Falco and Yves Paccalet. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, and Audrey Tautou. The film follows\u00a0Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a French ocean-going… Continue reading The Odyssey (2016)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}