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Film · 1934 · Romantic drama
L'Atalante
Directed by Jean Vigo
1934
France
★ 6.8 editorial score
Vigo was dying at twenty-nine when he finished it and the studio hacked it apart anyway: restored, it is the most sensual thing ever filmed about being newly married on a working barge.
“"L'Atalante" is not about what lovers do, but about how they feel--how tender they are, how sensitive and foolish. The film is shot in a poetic way that sees them as the figures in a myth...The movie's effect comes through the way it evokes specific moments in the life of the young couple, rather than tying them to a plot. They will be the moments that memory illuminates 50 years from now, when everything else has grown vague.”
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