The beautiful cinematography, the quiet power of the male lead and the tactile sensuality of the beautiful wife...and the transcendent, masterful performance of Michel Simon as the first-mate.
Has any better depiction of marriage ever been filmed? Has a bygone age ever been so perfectly captured?
The restored DVD-version is wonderful.
IMO, one of the most perfect works of art ever produced, in any medium. What a tragedy Vigo died so young...
(And, audio buffs, you can see an early system and the--even then--- trials of tweaking!)
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Topic - L'Atalante: a perfect film? - tinear 03:54:19 12/27/04 (16)
- Re: L'Atalante: a perfect film? - Victor Khomenko 05:15:00 12/27/04 (1)
- Saw Zero a long time ago and don~t remember being impressed; Truffaut - tinear 08:10:12 12/30/04 (0)
- Re: L'Atalante: a perfect film? - patrickU 04:57:44 12/27/04 (13)
- i'm interested... - warrenh@optonline.net 05:03:04 12/27/04 (12)
- Well, some serious movie critics... - Victor Khomenko 05:16:39 12/27/04 (0)
- Re: i'm interested... - patrickU 05:12:44 12/27/04 (10)
- Re: i'm interested... - warrenh@optonline.net 06:58:23 12/27/04 (9)
- Re: i'm interested... - patrickU 08:36:50 12/27/04 (0)
- Re: i'm interested... - Victor Khomenko 07:56:20 12/27/04 (7)
- voila!! - warrenh@optonline.net 08:55:47 12/27/04 (6)
- Re: voila!! - patrickU 10:34:17 12/27/04 (5)
- Re: voila!! - Victor Khomenko 10:50:15 12/27/04 (4)
- Re: voila!! - patrickU 11:03:37 12/27/04 (3)