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Atalante

L' Atalante

Jean Vigo


  • Country: France
  • Year: 1934
  • Language: French
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  • Runtime: 89 min.

An alternately comic, tragic, fantastic and hauntingly beautiful reverie on love lost and regained, this final work from the pathbreaking French director Jean Vigo—completed shortly before his tragically premature death at 29—chronicles the "honeymoon" of two young newlyweds (Jean Daste and Dita Parlo) on a river barge chugging towards Paris, accompanied by the filthy, tattooed Père Jules (Michel Simon), who lives amongst a swarm of cats and keeps the forearm of his dead best friend pickled in a jar.

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screening times

    • Saturday October 9
    • 12:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Tuesday October 26
    • 3:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

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An alternately comic, tragic, fantastic and hauntingly beautiful reverie on love lost and regained, this final work from the pathbreaking French director Jean Vigo—completed shortly before his tragically premature death at 29—chronicles the "honeymoon" of two young newlyweds (Jean Daste and Dita Parlo) on a river barge chugging towards Paris, accompanied by the filthy, tattooed Père Jules (Michel Simon), who lives amongst a swarm of cats and keeps the forearm of his dead best friend pickled in a jar. When a lovers' quarrel and the temptations of the city drive the young bride from the boat, it is up to Père Jules to act an unlikely Cupid and reunite the couple. "Classical, almost violent and always tormented, fevered, overflowing with ideas and with fantasy; truculent; a virulent and even demonical romanticism that still remains humanistic" (Élie Faure).

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