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INSTINCT DE SURVIE

The Shallows

2016 AU HMDB
juin 24, 2016

Nancy surfe en solitaire sur une plage isolée lorsqu’elle est attaquée par un grand requin blanc. Elle se réfugie sur un rocher, hors de portée du squale. Elle a moins de 200 mètres à parcourir à la nage pour être sauvée, mais regagner la terre ferme sera le plus mortel des combats…

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Production: Lynn Harris (Producer)Matti Leshem (Producer)Douglas C. Merrifield (Executive Producer)Jaume Collet-Serra (Executive Producer)
Scenario: Anthony Jaswinski (Screenplay)
Musique: Marco Beltrami (Original Music Composer)
Photographie: Flavio Martínez Labiano (Director of Photography)

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Nancy est une jeune étudiante américaine qui décide de passer des vacances au Mexique pour se rendre sur une plage isolée où sa mère disparue récemment avait l'habitude d'aller. Accompagnée en voiture par un homme du coin et laissée seule par son amie encore en proie aux effets d'une gueule de bois, la belle touriste arrive dans le lieu enchanteur et commence à surfer sur des vagues géantes avec sa planche, sa véritable grande passion. Paysage à couper le souffle et amusement sans limites semblent être les protagonistes d'une journée de rêve pour Nancy jusqu'à ce qu'un événement se produise qui bouleversera son séjour et mettra sa vie en danger : la jeune fille, en effet, s'approche d'un grand animal marin tué à coups de dents par un énorme et vorace requin blanc qui interprète le geste de la surfeuse comme une tentative d'envahir son territoire de chasse. C'est ainsi que commence le plus classique des duels à mort entre l'homme et la nature avec la protagoniste qui n'a qu'un rocher et la marée basse comme armes pour affronter la presque invincible bête féroce. En 1975, un encore jeune Steven Spielberg porte à l'écran l'une de ses œuvres les plus célèbres, "Les Dents de la mer". Passé à l'histoire du cinéma, le film marque le début du filon du beast-movie qui voit justement dans le gigantesque et féroce chasseur des mers l'une des figures de proue. Dès lors, en effet, les écrans pullulent d'animaux de toutes sortes qui attaquent les hommes soit par faim soit pour punir l'incurie de l'être humain envers la nature. Des dizaines et des dizaines de titres, parmi lesquels "Piranha", "Cujo", "L'orque tueuse" pour n'en citer que quelques-uns, qui ont toutefois fini par générer une saturation du filon devenu ennuyeux et aussi peu intéressant du point de vue commercial, si l'on pense que de nombreuses pellicules ont été reléguées directement à la distribution en DVD. Pourtant, depuis quelque temps, le vent semble avoir de nouveau changé et, complice du succès d'un produit discuté mais néanmoins innovant comme "Sharknado", l'intérêt pour les requins semble s'être réveillé. Conséquence directe de cela, ce "Paradise Beach- Au cœur de l'horreur", un thriller aquatique très tendu et réalisé avec grande maîtrise par un excellent représentant du cinéma de genre contemporain comme Jaume Collet-Serra, déjà connu des passionnés pour le remake de "La maison de cire" et l'excellent "Orphan". Lorsque l'on aborde un film de requins, le danger le plus courant est de tomber dans la répétitivité dont on parlait plus haut et de raconter une histoire prévisible et banale minute après minute. Et pourtant Collet-Serra réussit largement à éviter ce risque grâce à un scénario qui, exception faite de quelques moments de lenteur néanmoins légitimes et pardonnables, voyage sur les rails d'une tension très élevée et exploite à merveille chaque petit élément à disposition, même un simple rocher et un goéland sans défense. Merveilleuse aussi la soin apporté à la création d'un requin très réaliste et inquiétant non seulement pour son aspect et ses énormes mâchoires, mais aussi pour sa vive ruse avec laquelle il soutient une guerre avant tout psychologique avec la malheureuse Nancy. Le reste est ensuite fait par le paysage paradisiaque extraordinaire qui devient un théâtre parfait de terreur et de mort duquel reste à l'écart toute forme d'incursion dans le gore, comme on s'y attendrait dans ces cas, à preuve que la tension est l'ingrédient principal sur lequel mise le réalisateur espagnol. Pourtant le film n'est pas exempt de quelques petits défauts, en premier lieu l'introduction de personnages secondaires qui entament le caractère intimiste de l'intrigue et envahissent un ring idéal réservé aux deux protagonistes Nancy et le requin. Imperfections qui n'entament pas dans l'ensemble la bonne réussite de ce "Paradise Beach- Au cœur de l'horreur" qui voit aussi la consécration définitive d'une surprenante Blake Lively qui, outre à se démarquer par la beauté de son physique en maillot de bain, démontre savoir porter tout le film sur ses épaules comme le ferait une grande actrice. Collet-Serra a donc fait mouche encore une fois et son film est destiné à rester un bon point de référence pour un genre, le beat-movie, en légère renaissance - ou du moins on l'espère.
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The Movie Waffler

The Movie Waffler

All you should need to make a good movie is a girl and a shark, but Serra fails to deliver the basics, instead fashioning a movie that too often resembles a female oriented riff on an '80s Old Spice commercial. The Shallows is a damp squib.

Read the full review at http://www.themoviewaffler.com/2016/07/new-release-review-shallows.html

Simon Foster

"Jaume Collet-Serra’s woman-vs-wild thriller is beautiful, bigscreen Hollywood nonsense that manoeuvres/manipulates the viewer into the kind of submissive state only the finest summer crowd-pleasers can achieve..."

Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2016/8/19/the-shallows.html

Reno

Reno

7 /10

Very close to the shore, yet too far and dangerous to attempt.

I'm sure you have seen shark attack films like 'Jaws', 'Deep Blue Sea' et cetera, and yep this another one to add to that collection. But this was something very neatly done, I mean for the most of the parts. Looked so real, so I thought it might end up top among its similar theme. In the end, I was little disappointed, because of the shark. The portrayal of shark was very natural, until the last half an hour. Then it becomes the common film gimmick when the animal was obsessed to kill its target at any cost.

I am a huge animal fan, but I have never seen a live shark in my life and that does not mean I don't know anything about them. Thanks to the nature television networks and what I saw in this film was very disappointing if you love wild animals. I am not supporting the shark here, I'm just talking about its behaviour. It was not right, other than that, I definitely enjoyed the film. In fact, except the final few minutes, since the shark got pumped up, I had no issue and the best shark attack film. But the final battle ruined overall favour I'm going to give to it, what I thought this film deserved.

Great location, and Blake Lively was unbelievably awesome. In the initial part, she was very sexy, but once the narration shifted its focus on surfing and later shark attack, everything changed. The entire film was edgy, I think very nicely written screenplay. It was a limited cast film and nearly the whole film takes place very close to the shore. A good start, neatly maintained mid part, but a below par conclusion, that's what I think about the film. Slightly missed to be a great film in the line of '127 Hours'. In fact, this looks like a sea version of that film. But I still recommend it, because it's worth.

6.5/10

P Rip

P Rip

6 /10

As a shark fanatic (thanks, Jaws), I was excited to see The Shallows. When I first saw the trailer, I thought the concept--more 127 Hours than Jaws--was interesting: A single person, alone on a rock, trapped a mere 100 or so yards offshore, in shark-infested waters.

Most shark movies follow the Jaws formula to a T: Shark attacks a bather, someone in position of authority decides something must be done and the beaches should be closed, someone of higher authority thwarts that attempt, more people die, our hero finally has to confront the monster.

But The Shallows produced a new and fresh take on the same old fish tale. The first half of the movie is similar to Open Water, relying on tension and little fanfare. Then, the shark explodes onto the screen for a few moments, and the movie suddenly becomes a high octane thriller. Basically, though the shark is the main antagonist of this story, all the scenes with the shark in them are much less interesting. I was more engaged with Blake Lively and that damn seagull. She was likable, and I bought into the survival story and was really rooting for her.

There were moments, when The Shallows relied on suspense, that the film become Hitchcockian in tone. We know the shark is out there, but we can't see him. The second we do, the suspense dies instantly. Parts of the movie were small and intimate, much like an independent film. And those were the strengths.

But it almost feels as if the director wanted to do a mash up of a simple suspenseful stalking movie, combined with elements of a survival movie. And again, all that worked for me.

But the sensationalism of the shark stuff was over the top in my opinion. It gave the movie an uneven feel. It was, at times, both a suspenseful stalker type movie with survivalism thrown in, and, then, seemingly out of nowhere, it became an over-the-top summer blockbuster type movie.

It gives it the look of a movie where director and producer didn't see eye to eye. It really seems like the shark action sequences were forced into the movie. They just didn't fit the overall tone. That's this movie's biggest downfall. Yes, the shark has to be there, yes he has to be dangerous. But the way it is presented through the film needs to fit the overall tone of the movie. At one point, the shark eats three people in the course of-- what?--an hour or so? So what was set up, was a small movie. An intimate movie. Something closer to The Blair Witch Project or Open Water, but what we got in the end, was something closer to Friday the 13th.

This movie could have been so much more, by being so much less. Excess is not always best.

In all fairness, The Shallows could have been much worse too. The things that did work, worked well--well enough that with some inventive direction, could have carried the film by themselves. But alas, the over the top violence and sensationalism trumped suspense and creative storytelling, which downgrades The Shallows from something special and unique, to just a "good" movie.

The locations were beautiful, and seeing them in 4K HD on a huge screen was quite impressive.

AndryX7

8 /10

An exceptional movie involving a hungry shark

Plot is simple yet so catchy and interesting. After a few minutes you will start to care about the main protagonist, so much that you will cross your fingers hoping for the best. Everything (or almost everything) is going to feel realistic, and there is not anything wrong with the main antagonist ... it is totally well made.

Great performance by Blake Lively (Nancy Adams) too. I will also mention the impressive landscapes because they literally left me speechless. I would have appreciated a more detailed background story but I will not complain as this movie was a really great experience.

Watch it, especially if you are into suspense and sharks!

(8 stars out of 10)

The Movie Mob

The Movie Mob

7 /10

Overall : Blake Lively takes a shallow premise and elevates a basic shark movie to the next level with her excellent performance.

I was skeptical that an entire movie set on a buoy could be any good, but I was wrong! The Shallows is a sensational shark movie! The whole film fell on Blake Lively's shoulders to carry it all with her acting, and she delivered. The tension, bravery, fear, and struggle show through Lively's portrayal of Nancy with crystal clarity. As a shark movie fan, this one has depth 😉.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6 /10

There's quite a bit of menace from the photography and at least the shark looks real as it terrorises the stranded "Nancy" (Blake Lively) in a small inlet a matter of a few hundred yards from the shore. Naturally, she's left all of her stuff on the beach so is completely incommunicado after a passing Great White decides it wants a snack. Luckily there are a few big rocks and even a chunky metal reef marker for her to shelter on as she prays that someone will come to her aide. Someone, that is, with sense enough to wonder what she is doing stuck on a rock and not just to get into the water, blithely and finally. Though I'm not sure just how physically possible the denouement is, I did really like those few seconds and to be fair, Lively does manage to convey a decent degree of desperation as the tenacious shark gets more and more peckish, angry and innovative. Can she survive? Well on that front the jeopardy level is precisely zero and the whole film is easily half an hour too long, but there are still some squeaky moments and it's worth a watch, if only to remind us just how vulnerable and out of our depth mankind is in a nature where our technology doesn't count.

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