L' Atalante
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Movie Reviews of L' Atalante
Movie Review: Pure, mystical and unforgettable
Summary: 5 Stars
Compared to today's movies -- characterized by insipid stories, bad acting, artificiality, and excess -- this simple (even banal) story feels like water in the desert. It's innocent and endearing in a way today's films seldom attempt. And its beauty will leave you wanting to freeze frame frequently.
After watching L'Atalante, I understand why others say this is what great filmmaking is all about.
There are many thoughtful and insightful reviews posted here. Read them, trust them, then watch this for all the reasons mentioned. Most of all, watch L'Atalante just to enjoy how it makes you feel.
FAVORITE SCENE - Early on, there's a scene with Juliette walking on top of the barge, at twilight, with just water and sky behind her. It's the lighting: one of the most beautiful and haunting images on film, it's just one of many others you'll find.
Movie Review: Jean Vigo: master of masters!
Summary: 5 Stars
L' Atalante (1934), name of the mythical Goddess, specialist in getting away of men, means for Truffaut, one of his ten preferred ones. Its unlucky story has known multiple obstacles, beginning with the death of Jean Vigo, once the footage was over, the changes made by its producers as well as the successive restorations, being the last one in 1990, that carved in relief a violent film, tormented, fevered, filled of ideas and fantasy, featured by an exacerbated romanticism, almost devilish but profoundly human.
Very few films have been able to depict with such poetry and conviction, the quotidian details, images hovered by an enraptured lyricism, in that hard to achieve dimension in which the real and the imaginary are blended with mesmerizing results.
Extraordinary and majestic film.
Movie Review: five stars for everyone involved
Summary: 5 Stars
Suberb cinematography, direction, acting, etc. Visually, an absolutely georgeous film. Photographed by the same cameraman who emigrated to Hollywood and did On the Waterfront. Great writing and directing. Not a single wasted moment. The acting is everything you could ask for; it's thoroughly "modern." The sound is beautifully integrated into the film, especially for such an early effort in the sound era. And it contains one of the great cinema "sex scenes" of all time...particularly since the male and female leads are miles apart as it takes place! I had been unaccountably unaware of this film until recently....its now one of my top 10 favorite films of all times and places.Movie Review: L'Atalante
Summary: 5 Stars
A sublime melding of the real and surreal, the deceptively simple plot of Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" is part of its lasting appeal. Life on water is Eden, life on land, temptation, and we instinctively want the sanctity of Jean and Juliette's love upheld. An acknowledged masterpiece, "L'Atalante" still floats gracefully, with actor Michel Simon stealing the picture as Pere Jules, the barge's eccentric, cantankerous first-mate. Sadly, this was the gifted Vigo's only full-length feature; he died shortly after its release, at age 29.Movie Review: Why is this no longer being sold?!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is ridiculously fantastic. I'm glad I already own it, but why the heck is it no longer being sold? I wanted to get it as a wedding gift for my friend because we used to watch old movies together. Oh well.