Nine movies (and a half) to say goodbye to last summer

Climate change, the endless heat wave, the fires, the terrifying six months of the war in Ukraine... They also say that this summer will be the coolest we will remember.

We arrived in September on the back of a distressing wave, so the best thing would be to let yourself be swept away by the sea and its most mysterious and unfathomable dramas.

Dramas like

, Luc Besson's late-'80s film that made us fall in love with Jean-Marc Barr and the darkest side of the ocean (the film is sadly absent from the current cinematic offerings on platforms).

In this selection we propose another nine films to touch bottom.

The Day After Tomorrow

, 2004, Roland Emmerich (Disney+)

Climate change seemed like science fiction in 2004. But the godfather of disaster movies, the German Roland Emmerich, did not miss the opportunity to offer viewers the terrifying panorama of something unthinkable: the water swallowing the city of New York, the tornadoes devastating Los Angeles and hail torpedoing Tokyo.

The melting of Antarctica, the cooling of the North Atlantic…

is not a great movie, but at least you have to give it credit for having anticipated the conversation.

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Jaws

, 1975, Steven Spielberg (Filmin)

You always have to re-watch

the Steven Spielberg classic that changed the Hollywood industry and, with Hitchcock's

, the best animal thriller in history.

Although it takes place at the beginning of summer,

refers us to closed beaches and the sea as the great enigma of life and death.

Only for the final monologue of Robert Shaw, the cynical and crazy Captain Quint, deserves to see again and again this great film.

Moby Dick

, 1956, John Huston (Filming, Apple TV, Amazon Prime)

Let's start with the obvious: it's impossible to adapt Herman Melville's bible, and John Huston knew it.

But it is in that impossibility where the epic and greatness of it resides.

is the beginning of everything.

Also from

.

Huston's version, with Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab and script by Ray Bradbury, was not the first.

In 1929 the silent

was released and a year later The

Sound

Orson Welles, who always wanted to play Ahab, had to settle for playing Father Mapple.

His appearance is brief, but his sermon on Jonah and the whale has the solemnity of losing battles.

The Lady from Shanghai,

1947, Orson Welles (Filmin, Apple TV)

Neither

nor

, nor

Orson Welles was a wandering genius, a God of failure, a

who conjured up the ultimate meaning of art in front of Chartres Cathedral in his feverish monologue of

.

In

, alongside his disgraced wife Rita Hayworth, he plays Irish sailor Michael O'Hara.

In one of the most prodigious dialogues in this

, on the yacht of Elsa Bannister (Hayworth) and her husband, Arthur Bannister, he compares her human horizon to that of a black sea of ​​blood where sharks devour each other. .

Big Wednesday

, 1978, John Milius (Apple TV, Amazon Prime)

If you want to understand why there are people who give up their lives on the back of a wave, do a double session with this film and the 1966 documentary

Two masterpieces about the sea as a drug.

That incurable addiction to the perfect wave that John Milius portrayed in fiction like no other.

Milius was a true surfer and the famous surf and napalm sequence in

bears his stamp.

The Perfect Storm

, 2000, Wolfgan Petersen (HBO Max, Apple TV)

George Clooney at the helm of a cast that includes Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly and Diane Lane.

Although the true protagonist of this film is that perfect storm that a small fishing boat from Massachusetts must face when it deviates from its route in search of a good run.

Based on a true story, it is a true David against Goliath in the Atlantic Ocean.

A duel capable of taking away the desire to step on a ship again.

Of Rust and Bone

, 2012, Jacques Audiard (Amazon Prime, Filmin)

Another proposal for a double session: the documentary

about the terrible data behind an exploited killer whale in a theme park, and

, a strange and romantic film by Jacques Audiard about a trainer of these marine giants.

Marion Cotillard's character, who works in one of these sinister venues, has an affair with a wrestler who makes a living off the back of seedy fights on the Côte d'Azur.

The woman-monster relationship is resolved in Audiard's film in its, never better said, heartbreaking beginning.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

, 1954, Richard Fleischer (Disney+)

This popular adaptation of Jules Verne's novel was the first non-animated film created by Walt Disney.

A hymn to adventures and marine mysteries with what is called a luxury cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre... A classic of the afternoon session and the

with an Oscar setting and decorations and a monster that resists the passage of time: the gloomy captain Nemo and his Nautilus.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

, 1997, Jim Gillespie (Amazon Prime, Filmin, Apple TV)

Yes, the title comes to the hair.

But, in addition, the film that, along with

gave a new boost to the

takes place on a coastal road, where a group of young people run over a man and throw his corpse at the bottom of the sea.

The criticism was devastating, but the young public of the late nineties elevated it.

A box office success that marked the beginning of the terror saga, in which a man dressed as a fishing sailor and a huge hook savored his revenge.