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Under Paris (Template:Lang-fr) is a 2024 French action-horror film co-written and directed by Xavier Gens.

Plot

Neat the Great Pacific garbage patch, marine researcher Sophia Assalas and her team search for Lilith, a tagged mako shark. Leading the dive team, her husband locates Lilith, discovering her to have grown much larger since she was last sighted, before Lilith kills him and the rest of the divers. Leaving the safety of the boat, Sophia goes after Lilith, but almost drowns as the shark escapes.

Three years later, Mika, an environmentalist, informs Sophia that Lilith's tracking beacon is still active and that she has travelled to the River Seine in Paris. After a man is found dead with shark bites, police diver Adil recruits Sophie to help find and kill the shark, but Mika and her girlfriend Ben turn off the beacon before they can do so in the hope that they can rescue her later. Mika then reveals Lilith's existence to the public, and leads a group of supporters into the city's catacombs to find Lilith. Ben tells Sophie of Mika's plan, and she and Adil's team head down into the catacombs to find them.

Before they can evacuate everyone, Lilith appears with a juvenile shark in tow. Lilith kills Mika, causing a panic that leads to several deaths, including Ben and a member of Adil's team, and others left dismembered. In the aftermath Sophia and Adil find the juvenile shark dead, and after examining it discover that it has mutated to adapt to fresh water and that it is pregnant due to parthenogenesis. The mayor orders them to kill the shark, but does not cancel a triathlon to be held in the river.

Sophie and Adil plan to blow up Lilith with explosives. Underwater, they find a school of juvenile sharks as they set up their trap. Despite losing the rest of their team, the explosives go off successfully, killing the school of sharks but Lilith survives. She heads towards the triathlon, killing several swimmers before the military attacks her. The disturbance in the water from their gunfire and Lilith's movements causes unexploded ordnance at the bottom of the river to unsettle and detonate, leading to a chain reaction of explosions that creates a tsunami that floods Paris. Sophia and Adil are left stranded in the middle of the river, surrounded by Lilith and the juvenile sharks that have survived the explosions.

Cast

• Bérénice Bejo as Sophia
• Nassim Lyes [fr; af; de; es; ht] as Adil
• Anne Marivin as the Mayor of Paris
• Aurélia Petit
• Lea Leviant as Mika

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 63% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 6.0/10.

References

1. Boisclair, Marc (22 April 2024). "« Sous la Seine » : Netflix accusé de plagiat et une demande pour l'annulation de la sortie du film de requins de Xavier Gens" ["Under Paris": Netflix accused of plagiarism and a request for the cancellation of the release of the shark film by Xavier Gens]. Horreur Québec (in French).
2. "Under Paris". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 June 2024.

External links

• Under Paris at IMDb

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