Shark He taught us that the safest waterways are never completely safe. In Spielberg’s film, the shark that terrorizes Amity enters a lagoon reserved for children and attacks a canoeist. From here, the directors have tried to connect two ideas to the point of hyperbole and beyond: a huge shark in an unexpected place. Thus, we have had devouring beasts in the canals of Venice, in hurricanes bound for New York and Megalodons in the Mariana Trench.
Now, thanks to In the depths of the Seine, we have them in the heart of Paris. Netflix premieres its first original title about sharks this June 5. This means two things: that the red platform has opted for a dangerous game, and that summer is officially inaugurated. From Shark (1975), few (none?) movies about sharks have managed to fare well after their inevitable comparison with Spielberg’s title. And there have been many. Many. We’ll tell you what this one is about.
‘In the depths of the Seine’: Synopsis
According to data from Paris City Vision, the depth of the Seine does not exceed six meters. It is possible that the In the depths of the Seine be even less. At this point, shark cinema is ascribed to a production logic as patterned as that of Coca Cola: Idyllic environment. Shark. Hell on earth. An unexpected savior.
In this case, the recipe is as follows: a gigantic shark sneaks into the Seine and a scientist decides to confront it, thus fighting with her own tragic past. It remains to be seen if In the depths of the Seine embraces the canonical ending of the genre: when everything seems resolved and the children splash on the shore, a fin breaks the surface of the water.
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