Sharks in the Seine — mon dieu! Netflix /Sofie Gheysens hide caption I will be the first to admit I didn't even know there was a French shark movie until I saw it appear at the very top of Netflix's top 10 movies. And it's not as if it's hiding anything about its topic: It's called Under Paris . You know why? Because it's all about sharks under Paris.
Specifically, it's about sharks in the Seine. Initially, there are just a couple of sharks. But then, there are a lot of sharks.
And the movie is apparently an enormous hit, although/because it is, while not as silly as Sharknado , very silly. Under Paris (aka, to me at least, Sharknadeau ) begins as a standard menacing-creature story. Sophia (Bérénice Bejo, Oscar nominee for The Artist ) is a scientist studying sharks in the vicinity of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (a real, depressing thing).
She and her team get a signal from one of their tagged sharks, named Lilith, and several members of the team go on a dive to obtain a blood sample. This dive does not go well (I mean, I suppose it goes OK for Lilith), leaving Sophia traumatized. A few years later, a shark-saving group in Paris alerts Sophia that they know where Lilith is: in the Seine.
Now, sharks in the Seine are not a real thing, but perhaps the only upside of climate change is the expansion of options for disaster movies. After all, a movie like this can throw its hands in the air and say, "Honestly, you don't know what's possible now that you can go to the bea.
