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L'Atalante

  • 19341934
  • SS
  • 1h 29m
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7.8/10
16K
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Jean Dasté and Dita Parlo in L'Atalante (1934)
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Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

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  • Director
    • Jean Vigo
  • Writers
    • Jean Guinée(scenario)
    • Albert Riéra(adaptation)
    • Jean Vigo(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Dita Parlo
    • Jean Dasté
    • Gilles Margaritis
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  • Director
    • Jean Vigo
  • Writers
    • Jean Guinée(scenario)
    • Albert Riéra(adaptation)
    • Jean Vigo(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Dita Parlo
    • Jean Dasté
    • Gilles Margaritis
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    • 79User reviews
    • 95Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Dita Parlo in L'Atalante (1934)
    Jean Dasté and Dita Parlo in L'Atalante (1934)
    À propos de Nice (1930)
    Jean Dasté and Dita Parlo in L'Atalante (1934)
    Michel Simon in L'Atalante (1934)
    L'Atalante (1934)
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    Jean Dasté and Dita Parlo in L'Atalante (1934)
    Dita Parlo in L'Atalante (1934)
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    Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, and Michel Simon in L'Atalante (1934)

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    Dita Parlo
    Dita Parlo
    • Julietteas Juliette
    Jean Dasté
    Jean Dasté
    • Jeanas Jean
    Gilles Margaritis
    • Le camelot (peddler)as Le camelot (peddler)
    Louis Lefebvre
    • Le gosse (cabin boy)as Le gosse (cabin boy)
    Maurice Gilles
    • Le chef de bureau (office manager)as Le chef de bureau (office manager)
    Raphaël Diligent
    • Le trimardeur (trampas Le trimardeur (tramp
    • (as Rafa Diligent)
    • …
    Michel Simon
    Michel Simon
    • Le père Jules (old Jules)as Le père Jules (old Jules)
    Claude Aveline
      René Blech
      • Best Man at Weddingas Best Man at Wedding
      • (uncredited)
      Lou Bonin
      • Passenger at Railway Stationas Passenger at Railway Station
      • (uncredited)
      Jacques B. Brunius
      • Policeman with a Bicycleas Policeman with a Bicycle
      • (uncredited)
      Fanny Clair
      • Juliette's Motheras Juliette's Mother
      • (uncredited)
      Fanny Clar
      • La mère de Julietteas La mère de Juliette
      • (uncredited)
      Charles Dorat
      • Thiefas Thief
      • (uncredited)
      Paul Grimault
      • Passenger at Railway Stationas Passenger at Railway Station
      • (uncredited)
      Genya Lozinska
      • Fortune Telleras Fortune Teller
      • (uncredited)
      Gen Paul
      • Master of Ceremonies at Weddingas Master of Ceremonies at Wedding
      • (uncredited)
      Jacques Prévert
      Jacques Prévert
      • Passenger at Railway Stationas Passenger at Railway Station
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Jean Vigo
      • Writers
        • Jean Guinée(scenario)
        • Albert Riéra(adaptation) (dialogue)
        • Jean Vigo(adaptation) (dialogue)
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      Storyline

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      When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him as he captains a river barge. Besides the two of them, are 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 land at 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 searching for Juliette. —dlevy1201
      • jealousy
      • fortune teller
      • superstition
      • souvenir
      • fog
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      • Genres
        • Comedy
        • Drama
        • Romance
      • Certificate
        • S
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      • Trivia
        The last film completed by Jean Vigo before his death from tuberculosis at twenty-nine.
      • Alternate versions
        1934-04-25 --- Jean Vigo's authorized cut before his death, at 89 min running time, shown to exhibitors and distributors mostly, at Palais Rochechouart, Paris, France. This version is lost.
      • Connections
        Edited into Cinéastes de notre temps: Jean Vigo (1964)
      • Soundtracks
        La Chanson des Mariniers
        Music by Maurice Jaubert

        Lyrics by Charles Goldblatt

      User reviews79

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      Top review
      9/10
      Tales of the riverbank
      My big problem with "L'Atalante" is how much of what we see and hear was really Jean Vigo's intention (as he didn't finish it) when he was making it? The restored version is the only version and was reconstructed from many disparate bits about 15 years ago, meaning it has had running order interpretations foisted upon it. I think most of the film we see came from the BFI in London, remixed with other clips into some kind of logical sequence by Gaumont in Paris and sold as a Forgotten Masterpiece.

      Well, if you can call such luck ending up as a masterpiece it was purely unintentional by Vigo - he didn't see what we do now.

      What we have though is definitely a series of relentlessly beautiful, thought-provoking, impressionistic black and white images hung together for 87 minutes with a very flimsy story of 3 people on a barge. The kid was background fluff and doesn't really count. Simon was his usual farcical self, I wish he'd been background as well. Daste and Parla were both later in "La Grande Illusion", can you really forget her as the German widow Elsa in favour of this? The framings and compositions are wonderful to see - how important was it to include distant shots of power stations, cranes etc? Why did Daste stare right into the underwater camera? How come every available surface seems uncomfortable or strewn with bizarre objects or people? Why just the one short aerial shot? And so many other questions which are either pointless or beyond my intelligence; somebody somewhere must know!

      I find every time I watch "L'Atalante" it grows on me - I thought it was pants in '91, now I think it's brill! We all move at different speeds - some people will never be able to see this as anything but boring while some people thought it was a classic before they saw it! Whereas I'm still on the voyage of discovery with this one and will definitely watch it again, but not as an indispensable film, more as akin to a trip to the Art Gallery.
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      • Aug 29, 2004

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      • Release date
        • October 5, 1962 (Finland)
      • Country of origin
        • France
      • Languages
        • French
        • Russian
      • Also known as
        • Atalante
      • Filming locations
        • Bassin de la Villette, Paris 19, Paris, France
      • Production companies
        • Argui-Film
        • Gaumont-Franco Film-Aubert (G.F.F.A)
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      Box office

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      • Gross worldwide
        • $9,505
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      Technical specs

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      • Runtime
        1 hour 29 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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