Le Fils du requin (1993)

Title: The Son of the Shark

Original Title: Le Fils du requin

Release Date: 1993-11-24

Status: Released

Rating: 7.1/10 (from 8 votes)

Language: FR

Genres: Drama, Crime

Production Companies: In Visible Films, Compagnie des Images, Gaumont, France 3 Cinéma, Première Heure, RTL-TVi, Saga Film

Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?