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Even among cinema’s greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo’s films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo’s titles: À propos de Nice, an absurdist, rhythmic slice of life from the bustling coastal city of the title; Taris, an inventive short portrait of a swimming champion; Zéro de conduite, a radical, delightful tale of boarding-school rebellion that has influenced countless filmmakers; and, of course, L’Atalante, widely regarded as one of cinema’s finest achievements, about newlyweds beginning their life together on a canal barge. These are the endlessly witty, visually adventurous works of a pivotal film artist.
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L'Atalante: the most beautiful movie ever made, May 28 2011
By W. N. "Will-N-LA" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Jean Vigo: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Sight unseen.... the Blu-ray DVD has not yet been released. I have however seen all of these films, and own l'Atalante on DVD--which improved the quality of this very old movie. In Blu-ray it will probably be further improved, but I cannot speak to that.For me there is no movie more romantic and heartfelt than L'Atalante. It's story is simple enough, a young couple is married in a small town and then begins married life on Seine River barge heading for Paris. The deck hand is Michel Simon, (Boudu Saved From Drowning -Jean Renoir) in another funny role. They arrive in Paris, complications ensue... L'Atalante inspired the French New Wave, especially Francois Truffaut, Claude Lelouch and Jacques Rivette. It's one of the great treasures.
Zero de Conduite - is about a rebellion in a boarding school and established that genre. Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados and Truffaut's the 400 Blows, quote directly from it.
A Propos de Nice and Taris are a City Film and a study of a swimming champion. They will seem very dated, but if you love movies, city films-films about cities-are interesting, both historically, and for the film techniques they used. The qualities of these short movies led directly to Vigo being allowed to make his two feature films.
I can't say enough about Jean Vigo and especially L'Atalante and Zero de Conduit.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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A perfect set, Aug 29 2011
By Lee Roy Tree "music, film, and book fan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Jean Vigo: The Criterion Collection (À propos de Nice / Taris / Zéro de conduite / L'Atalante) (DVD)
Jean Vigo is one of the best directors you might not have heard of until recently. This set completely does his work justice. I have the dvd version, and the transfers are absolutely gorgeous. There are informative commentaries, in depth episodes, an interview with Truffaut and Rohmer about the man and his work (and the short amount of time he had to do it), and a neat little tribute from the director Michael Gondry. This set is essential to any lover of cinema, and its storied beginnings. Get it.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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mixed Blu-ray results; still great, Sep 12 2011
By isabelle a - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Complete Jean Vigo: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Comparing the Blu-ray of L'Atalante w/The New Yorker dvd, I was a bit disappointed. The source print was never pristine and while the image is tidied up in some places, there is not a huge improvement from the dvd. It's not a jaw-dropping improvement like Criterion's ultra-silvery Blu-ray of Fritz Lang's M. However, everyone who has seen any iteration of L'Atalante knows that it is a wonderful, poetic movie, endlessly watchable, while "M" is a superior print of a just-ok movie. The print of Apropos de Nice, Vigo's impressionistic view of that city, is immaculate, and more solidly Blu-ray-ish.L'Atalante is certainly a top 10 or top 20 film of all time. The opening 10 minutes and the late scene when the couple is separated and lie in different beds longing for each other, can make viewers swoon. But for me there is too much of Michel Simon, a 1930s star whose gruff buffoonery is allowed to overwhelm the narrative. A little bit of him goes a long way. You may remember Michael J. Pollard in a supporting role in Bonnie & Clyde. If he had more screen time, it would have wrecked Arthur Penn's movie. Simon doesn't wreck L'Atalante, but he wears out his welcome long before the end.
The booklet essays are only moderately insightful & sometimes pretentious.
While I respect the comments of the 3 previous posters, there is no indication that any of them purchased the Blu-ray, & at least one was posted before the Blu-ray was released. If you look at the comments on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, Amazon bunches the dvd & Blu-ray comments together, so you have no idea if reviewers have seen the Blu-ray or are just commenting on their 40 year old memories.
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