Amorgos and The Big Blue: The Island of the Cult Film

The deep turquoise water of Agia Anna cove on Amorgos, the beach of Luc Besson's film The Big Blue

Amorgos is inseparable from The Big Blue, Le Grand Bleu. Luc Besson’s cult film about free-diving that was largely shot on the island and brought its deep, clear waters to a global audience. The images of impossibly blue sea and stark Cycladic light made Amorgos famous, and the film’s legacy still shapes the island’s diving … Read more