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‘Under Paris’ Review: At Last, a Shark Movie Worthy of Swimming in the Wake of ‘Jaws’
Directed by Xavier Gens ('Lupin'), Netflix's shark thriller 'Under Paris' starring Bérénice Bejo makes the most of its premise.
It’s also brilliant in its simplicity, if not quite as appealingly silly a high-concept premise as “what if there were snakes on a plane?” and “what if the moon … fell?” Look no further than “ Under Paris ” for an answer to the hypothetical that surely keeps Emmanuel Macron up at night, as Netflix’s new thriller swims rather than sinks as it adds life to a genre that’s been bloodless for far too long. “Under Paris” makes its environmental underpinnings clear in the opening sequence: a trip to the depressingly vast Great Pacific Garbage Patch in which researchers led by Sophia (Bérénice Bejo) swim into the wrong side of a mako feeding frenzy. If you can resist the joy of Bejo repeatedly declaring “c’est pas possible” upon being confronted with yet another seeming impossibility — such as, oh, the fact that mako sharks don’t live in freshwater — then perhaps your time would be better spent rewatching her Oscar-nominated turn in “The Artist” instead.
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