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L'Atalante, also released as Le Chaland qui passe ("The Passing Barge"), is a 1934 French film written and directed by Jean Vigo, and starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon.
Oct 15, 2000 · Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934) tells such a love story. It is on many lists of the greatest films, a distinction that obscures how down to earth it is, how direct in its story of a new marriage off to a shaky start.
L'Atalante: Directed by Jean Vigo. With Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre. Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
Aug 31, 2012 · 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.
Atalanta ( / ˌætəˈlæntə /; Greek: Ἀταλάντη, translit. Atalántē, lit. "equal in weight") is a heroine in Greek mythology .
Jan 16, 2017 · Jean Vigo's L'Atalante is our first real entry in the genre, and it's a good one. On the surface, it's a perfect example of the classic romantic story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.
Oct 4, 2018 · Poor health robbed cinema of a wholly original talent, but “L’Atalante” survives to enchant and mystify, and now arrives in a 4K restoration overseen by Gaumont that used an original nitrate ...
Jul 26, 2023 · The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades. L'Atalante (1934) Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté (background) in L’Atalante. Courtesy Janus Films. July 26, 2023 7:32 AM EDT. Marriage is the most...
L’Atalante. Directed by Jean Vigo • 1934 • France Starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon. In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope.
L'Atalante (1934) Jean Vigo’s headily poetic portrait of young newlyweds on – and off – Michel Simon’s barge on the Seine. Three surrealism-tinged shorts and one feature are the sum of Jean Vigo’s work before he died aged 29 from tuberculosis, yet they have assured him cinematic immortality.