Sun 2 - Tue 4 Apr
L’Atalante
89 mins
in French with EN subs
FRA | 1934 | dir. Jean Vigo, with Michel Simon, Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo | music by Maurice Jaubert | 35mm
In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope. Jean (Jean Dasté), a barge captain, marries Juliette (Dita Parlo), an innocent country girl, and the two climb aboard Jean’s boat, L’Atalante—otherwise populated by an earthy first mate (Michel Simon) and a multitude of mangy cats—and embark on their new life together. Both a surprisingly erotic idyll and a clear-eyed meditation on love, L’Atalante, Vigo’s only feature-length work, is a film like no other.
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