Becoming Cousteau

[Opens Oct. 22 in theaters.] Stunning cinematography highlights Liz Garbus' intriguing, insightful, educational, 93-minute documentary that uses archival film clips and photographs and excerpts from Cousteau's writings to explore the life and influential career of legendary French diver, adventurer, environmentalist, filmmaker, innovator, inventor, and conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau who invented the Aqua-Lung in 1946 and researched the world's oceans onboard his scientific vessel the Calypso for more than 40 years while trying to protect the oceans and sea life through public education and consists of commentary by diver Albert Falco, son Phillippe Cousteau, filmmaker Louis Malle, author Susan Schiefelbein, television producer David Wolper, ABC President Tom Moore, cameraman Jacques Renoir, crew member Yves Paccalet, wife Simone Cousteau, and editor John Soh and film snippets from his movies, including The Silent World, The House at the Bottom of the Sea, Conshelf Adventure, Time Bomb at Fifty Fathoms, Mediterranean: Cradle or Coffin, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
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