Although Jean Vigo died at the age of 29 having made just four films, he is questionably one of the great masters of French cinema. From his inventive A Propos de Nice, to the anarchic tale of student rebellion Zero de Conduite, and finally the lyrical romantic yearning of L'Atalante, Vigo's body of work has been celebrated the .. Read more
| Starring | Jean Vigo, Louis Lefebvre, Coco Golstein, Dita Parlo |
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| Director | Jean Vigo |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Masterpieces
Vigo was truly a poet of the cinema and one of the very few genuine artists produced by the medium. If you want ravishing images and a cinema of humanity and ... read more »
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Unglamorous Thirties
The Nice travelogue was interesting, but the biopic of the French swimmer was not!
As for the school boys... I understood none of this.
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Hard work!
The main two films - L'Atalante and Zero - aren't easy watches. There's not much of an attempt at a story. The other two pieces - Nice and Taris - ... read more »
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L'Atalante is a must see.
L'Atalante is a complete classic. The rest are odd bits and pieces which are rather redundant. I don't care much for Zero de Conduite at all.
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Just marvellous .....L'atalante!
I've been a francophile for a long time, but this film was just so staggeringly wonderful, I had to do a review. (Normally can't be bothered!)
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Atalante
I found this tender sensitive account of ealry marital troubles of a couple living on a Seine barge with tough old mariner father/father-in- law Michle Simon ... read more »
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Curate's egg best consumed in small doses
Four very different films. Don't bogart them all in one go or you won't do them justice. This is all stuff that will live with you forever. A propos de ... read more »
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L'Atalante is the star
I saw L'Atalante years ago and still enjoyed it, despite a bit of hammy acting here and there.
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A Loss to Cinema History
The four films he made were exceptional for the time, but viewed together, or one after the other, I found rather too hectic for a normal appraisal. I would ... read more »
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Great stuff.
L'Atalante is the most romantic and possibly the most beautifully filmed film of all time.Zero de Conduite is a little dated but still we wouldn't have ... read more »
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More of a curiosity than an entertainment
A blithe canter through 1930s France contained in four features from Vigo as pioneer of le Cinéma francais. ‘À propos de Nice’ is a ... read more »
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