L'Atalante

The last film in Jean Vigo's tragically short career, L'Atalante (1934) was indifferently received at first but has now achieved almost legendary status. Exploring the many ways in which the film's greatness lies not in the story but in the manner of its telling, Marina Warner provides rich analysis [...]
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The last film in Jean Vigo's tragically short career, L'Atalante (1934) was indifferently received at first but has now achieved almost legendary status. Exploring the many ways in which the film's greatness lies not in the story but in the manner of its telling, Marina Warner provides rich analysis of its historical, cultural and biographical contexts to show how Vigo's extraordinary style - as fresh, original and beautiful today as in 1934 - owes something to Surrealism, but is also uniquely his. In this reissued edition, updated with a new foreword and featuring original cover artwork by Richey Beckett, Warner argues that the quality of this luminously strange, poignantly tender and constantly surprising cine-poem has only strengthened in the eighty years since it was made.