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Jaws, a Monstrous Success (2024)

★ 6.3/10 53 min Documentary France, Belgium French
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Description

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

Top Cast

Nathalie Labarthe Narrator (voice over)
Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary Self
Joe Alves
Joe Alves Self - set designer
Carl Gottlieb
Carl Gottlieb Self - screenwriter
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Aja Self - director
Wendy Benchley Self
Matthew Robbins
Matthew Robbins Self
Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw Self

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