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L'Atalante

1934

Jean Vigo

Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis ...

7.8

5,340

Drama. Romance When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second mate Pere Jules. Soon bored by life on the river, she slips off to see the nightlife when they come to Paris. Angered by this, Jean sets off, leaving Juliette behind. Overcome by grief and longing for his wife, Jean falls into a depression and Pere Jules goes and tries to find Juliette.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film is shot in a poetic way (...) This is the kind of movie you return to like a favorite song (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		A.H. Weiler The New York Times	"Except for occasional moments of comedy, satire, and tender romance, these intellectual exercises should prove of high interest only to avid students of the cinema."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A masterpiece of sophistication, technique and human feeling (...) 'L'Atalante' manages to be more modern than anything being made today (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Masterpiece (...) 'L'Atalante' is one of the supreme achievements in the history of cinema (...) The sensuality of Vigo's work as a whole (...) has a special aura and potency."
		William Thomas Empire	"It has a genuinely weird feel, combining dingy realism with an almost magical eroticism (...) A stunning debut (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Eric Henderson Slant	"As the characters achieve catharsis, so does Vigo’s use of thematic repetition, and the result combines to form an absolute cinematic orgasm (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"The result is not so much a film as an entire artistic vision crammed into 89 of the busiest and most beautiful minutes of celluloid ever shot (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"Masterpiece (...) An extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of married life (...) The results are often magical"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"It’s no exaggeration to call 'L’Atalante' one of the greatest films in the history of cinema (...) It’s a film of an eternal youth"
		Mark Chalon Smith Los Angeles Times	"A movie of strange and beguiling charm (...) The movie features a great performance by Michel Simon"
		London Evening Standard	"Michel Simon is wonderful (...) Its combination of realism and fantasy is touching and the photography of Boris Kaufman superb"

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