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MovieMail's Review
The life of Jean Vigo is a gift for filmmakers - he was the tragic French director who died of TB aged 29 before his films, panned through his short life, would be reappraised and pronounced masterpieces (most notably L’Atalante, a frequent visitor to cenephiles’ top ten lists). He married a woman also dying of TB (well played by L’Appartement’s Romane Bohringer), his leftist beliefs alarmed the authorities and restricted his creative licence, and the actions of his father, a militant anarchist allegedly killed by government officers in prison, blackened his son’s name.
Julien Temple seizes on his eventful life and delivers a superior biopic with moments worthy of Vigo himself - a delightful moment on a train in the first sequence, the disastrous reception of his scathing, anti-bourgeois A Propos de Nice and the lovely final shot (admittedly stolen directly from L’Atalante) are particularly memorable. Vigo: A Passion for Life makes you want to re-watch all Vigo’s films again, makes you mourn the early death of such a gifted cineaste - and makes you celebrate that such a talent ever existed.
A personal take on an extraordinary story, Vigo - Passion For Life is a tragic but inspirational film about the passionate relationship between French film-maker Jean Vigo and his beautiful wife Lydu.
Would-be filmmaker Jean Vigo (James Frain), blighted by tuberculosis, seeks a cure in a Pyrenean sanatorium. There he meets fellow sufferer Lydu Lozinka (Romane Bohringer), with whom he begins a passionate relationship. Julien Temple's tribute to the legendary French director is loosely based on real-life events and is interspersed with extracts from Vigo's work.
