L’Atalante
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, the 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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Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Cast
- Jean Dasté
- Jean
- Dita Parlo
- Juliette
- Michel Simon
- Père Jules
- Louis Lefebvre
- Kid
- Gilles Margaritis
- Showman
- Fanny Clar
- Juliette’s mother
- Raphaël Diligent
- Raspoutine
- Maurice Gilles
- Manager of the Waterways Company
Credits
- Director
- Jean Vigo
- Screenplay
- Jean Vigo
- Screenplay
- Albert Riéra
- Music
- Maurice Jaubert
- Photography
- Boris Kaufman
- Photography
- Louis Berger
- Photography
- Jean-Paul Alphen
- Editing
- Louis Chavance
- A production by
- Jacques Louis-Nounez
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