“L’Atalante,” which I discuss in this clip, is the only feature by Jean Vigo to be released in his lifetime (he died in 1934, at the age of twenty-nine, shortly after the film’s first run ended). The ...

The son of anarchists, a sufferer of tuberculosis and a playful movie poet, French filmmaker Jean Vigo died at age 29, mere days after completing his only feature, 1934’s river-bound romance ...

Jean Vigo’s first and only feature-length film, L’Atalante can often be found snuggled amongst critics’ best-of-all-time lists. A quiet, subtle, and brilliantly simple story of a loved-up but immature ...

Life bursts forcefully from the screen in French director Jean Vigo’s 1934 film L’Atalante. Often quoted by critics as the apotheosis of film art, it is a fascinating blend of realism and unbounded ...

One of France's most revered film-makers, his father an anarchist murdered in jail during the first world war, Vigo died of leukaemia in 1934 at the age of 29. He left behind an oddly attractive short ...

NIGHT HAS fallen on a barge moving slowly down a French canal. Its crew, a halfwit body and a hulking old man, are forward with the young captain. His new bride is aft, trying to steer the ungainly ...

Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos One stirring short and three ...

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Directed by Jean Vigo. Starring Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon Club, QFT, Belfast (and IFI, Dublin in February), 89 min EVEN IF Jean Vigo had not bequeathed two of cinema’s least disputed ...