1/31/2024 0 Comments Submerge movie trailer![]() Wenders, who is known mainly for brainy, often woozy dramas and empathetic documentaries about subcultures (including "Buena Vista Social Club"), is good at giving Vikander and McAvoy the old fashioned movie star treatment. And it's here that the film becomes more intellectualized and abstract, juxtaposing Alicia's research and James' imprisonment and humiliation, cutting carefully from one to the other (as if they were Odysseus and Penelope), and drawing analogies between, say, the emotional and philosophical darkness of a jail cell and the ocean floor with the light, or "light," of the Atlantic's surface, or the notions of religious transcendence discussed by James and the captors who are trying to break him. They meet at a luxurious (though intimate) resort in Normandy, fall immediately in love after a bit of teasing banter, then are forced to separate and go off to fulfill their respective missions. This is not a particularly fascinating movie, unfortunately, despite being well-done in most of the superficial ways.Īlicia Vikander, who seems to be turning into a contemporary Audrey Hepburn a bit more with each new project, plays the scientist Danielle, and James McAvoy is James, the secret SAS officer posing as a water expert. There can be something questionable, maybe self-defeating, about that approach, but there's no denying that when the movies are well-done, the tensions between its base pleasures and intellectual complications can be fascinating. Adapted by Eric Dignam and directed by legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders, of " Paris, Texas" and " Wings of Desire," the movie version seems to want to be a contemporary answer to an Anthony Minghella movie like " The English Patient" or " Cold Mountain," taking a star-powered romance between beautiful people who wear beautiful clothes and move through beautiful settings-i.e., the kind of escapist melodrama that Hollywood was pretty much invented to make-and wreathing it in qualities that are more characteristic of art house films with Big Themes. The story is built around a multilayered consideration of words like "submerged," "depths," "darkness" and "light," illustrated by divergent sections in which Danielle explores the ocean floor in a submersible while James is kidnapped, held in solitary confinement, and tortured by Somali radicals. ![]() ![]() Ledgard, about the love affair between a biomathematician named Danielle Flinders, who is fascinated by life at the darkest levels of the ocean, and James More, a Secret Intelligence Service agent who poses as a water expert in order to gather evidence on Al Qaeda in Somalia. "Submergence" is based on a rapturously reviewed novel by J.M. ![]()
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