Les dents de la mer - Un succès monstre

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark, a plastic shark fin, and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror of a deep-sea, man-eating great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On beaches around the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after." Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre but also concealed his biting criticism of U.S. capitalism in the 1970s behind the film.