L'Atalante

L'Atalante was the first and only feature of director Jean Vigo, who died shortly after its completion at the age of 29. With this final film, Vigo applied the realist style of his earlier two short documentaries and his psuedo-documentary Zéro de conduite to a simple story of the young couple Jean (Jean Dasté) and Juliette (Dita Parlo) starting out their life as newlyweds on Jean's boat. The