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The Complete Jean Vigo
Film Description Featuring L'Atalante, Zero de Conduite, A Propos de Nice and Taris. Jean Vigo died at the age of 29 having made just four films - of which two are undisputed masterpieces. L'Atalante is simply one of the iconic films in cinema - a poetic, surreal, earthy and erotic tale with an irrepressible performance from Michel Simon. An essential collection from one of French cinema's early masters.
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DVD Extras Two discs; Documentaries: Filmmakers of our Times - Jean Vigo; From L'Atalante to L'Atalante; The Voyages of L'Atalante; Sound Regained; Interview with Otar Iosseliani; Extracts from the first version of A Propos de Nice; Jean Taris: Gaumont Newsreels; Stills & Poster Galleries; Vigo biography.
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Article - "Jean Vigo"
by Pasquale Iannone
The work of Jean Vigo – in its entirety barely more than three hours in running time – can be seen as the work of ‘un petit jeune homme qui s’amuse a faire des films’ - a young man who has fun making films. His was an almost child-like experimentation with a medium t... View article in full
Article - "Living Pictures - The Early Days of Film"
by Graeme Hobbs
From cinema's very inception, its appeal has lain with the presentation of illusions and the recording of actuality. Here, Graeme Hobbs looks at how the intersection of these two elements provides us with some of the finest films of that era, and which continue to... View article in full
Article - "Shame On Me (or The Dubious Benefits of ‘Guilty Pleasures’)"
by Anonymous
A funny thing happened to me the other day: I had one of them existential crises. Took me completely by surprise, it did. After all, I’m not French. Yet there I was, having my fundamental assumptions turned upside down.
Article - "Protecting the Weakest: Vigo, Truffaut and Antoine Doinel"
by Pasquale Iannone
In a 1994 documentary on Jean Vigo, directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Lindsay Anderson talk affectionately about Zéro de conduite, Vigo’s incendiary yet playful 1933 film about a revolt in a boy’s school filtered through the boys’ own mischievous gaze. Bertolu... View article in full
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