Vigo’s only full length film is an urban pastoral set aboard a barge, with a pair of honeymooners joined by eccentric seadog Michel Simon Jean Vigo achieved a mature masterpiece with this movie, his ...

The son of anarchists, a sufferer of tuberculosis and a playful movie poet, French filmmaker Jean Vigo died at age 29, mere days after completing his only feature, 1934’s river-bound romance ...

One of France's most revered film-makers, his father an anarchist murdered in jail during the first world war, Vigo died of leukaemia in 1934 at the age of 29. He left behind an oddly attractive short ...

Life bursts forcefully from the screen in French director Jean Vigo’s 1934 film L’Atalante. Often quoted by critics as the apotheosis of film art, it is a fascinating blend of realism and unbounded ...

“L’Atalante,” which I discuss in this clip, is the only feature by Jean Vigo to be released in his lifetime (he died in 1934, at the age of twenty-nine, shortly after the film’s first run ended). The ...

Jean Vigo’s 1934 barge-set romance L’Atalante regularly appears on lists of the greatest movies ever made, often very close to the top. It features indelible performances by Michel Simon, as the barge ...

Jean Vigo died aged 29, having made only four films. But few artists in the entire history of the cinema have won a similarly high reputation. L'Atalante is probably his most cherished work but you ...

Richard Brody on Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934). Richard Brody on Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934). and this clip is from, L'Atalante. A 1934 film directed by, Jean Vigo. It's his only full length ...