Originally released in 1934, Jean Vigo’s first and only full-length feature is one of the cinema’s greatest masterpieces.
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06/24/06
L'Atalante (1934)
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Reviews Counted: 24 Fresh: 24 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.7/10
Rated: PG
Runtime: 87 mins
Theatrical Release: 29-04-2005
Synopsis: Considered by critics to be one of the 20th century's best films, L'ATALANTE is the final work of French director Jean Vigo's (ZERO FOR CONDUCT) tragically brief, but brilliant career. After their wedding, Juliette (Dita Parlo) and Jean (Jean Daste) set out on L'Atalante, the river barge... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Michel Simon
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Top Critic
A cine-poem ode to the rhythms of life and love set on a barge travelling along the Seine, Jean Vigo's L'Atalante stands as one of cinema's indisputable masterpieces.
04/19/05
Top Critic
A major inspiration to subsequent generations of filmmakers, yet no one has ever succeeded in matching it.
07/24/07
One can't help but mourn the films an even more mature, capable and confident Vigo might have made had not TB cut him down at the tender age of 29
04/07/07
Blending naturalism and surrealism, this is a work of unique poetic power, a masterpiece that anticipated neo-realism by a decade; the fact that it's Vigo sole completed feature doesn't lessen his status as one of the world's greatest filmmakers.
01/24/07
A landmark of French cinema and one of the most beloved film romances.
04/13/06
This quiet little French number is a gossamer confection, but for a film of its era, it's gorgeous to look at.
06/16/05
This makes it a film that can be both appreciated by cineastes and enjoyed by anyone looking for a good romance story.
05/24/03
The action is episodic and diffuse but Michel Simon, as the dour and cat-loving barge hand lends a bit of comic relief to the pallidly poetic proceedings.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Stands as one of the most beautiful and rich celebrations of human connection in the history of cinema.
04/22/03
This 1934 French classic is a work of enduring poetry that has launched a thousand other movies.
03/10/03
A paean to evanescence and, however paradoxically, an enduring embodiment of the same concept: a wispish film from a short-lived director that has nonetheless been dreamed and re-dreamed, never the same way twice, for almost 70 years.
01/10/03
Hands down one of the most poetic, romantic and sentimental films I have ever seen.
12/12/02
Brilliantly idiosyncratic and insightful, the warmest film of this great director's career.
01/01/00
Vigo has created a dreamworld, which makes his film an out of this world cinematic experience.
01/01/00
Rapt, exuberant and as fragile as mist, this passionate tone poem drifts in its own bubble of oddly dissonant, almost fatalistic romanticism.
01/01/00
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