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Note: Only £5.00 on a tuesday so HURRY.
(later screening 8.40pm)
It is also on Weds Thurs Fri Sat & Sun @ BFI and at other Art House cinemas, so you can see it in your own time.
L'Atalante. Funny heart-rending, erotic, suspenseful exhileratingly inventive....Jean Vigo's only full-length feature satisfies on so many levels, it's no surprise it's widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.
Sadly Jean Vigo died at the age of 29 after having just completed L'Atalante. He only made only 4 films - of which two are undisputed masterpieces.
A brand new print. AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED.
Tues 14th Feb @ Sohohouse 7-9pm Presentation/Discussion on L'Atalante.
More gloss on Jean Vigo director of L'ATALANTE.
Not only did he die young at 29 after only making four films, but also he was the son of a famous anachist who was shot dead by the French police.
Many distinguished directors have claimed that it was seeing Vigo's films that inspired them to make films themselves. Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Bernardo Bertolucci are great admirers of his work, whilst our very own Lindsay Anderson based his film IF.... on Vigo's other masterpiece ZERO De CONDUIT. The latter film is set in a French boarding school where the children revolt against the
repressive regime. Vigo's own influences can be seen in MADCHEN in UNIFORM (1931) and the film DIARY OF A LOST GIRL an extract from which I screened last week. Madchen in Uniform made 2 years before the rise of Hitler is generally thought to be the first openly pro-lesbian story line and like Queen
Christina (extract shown last week) is a cult film within the lesbian community.
JEAN VIGO by Salles Gomes is a book worth dipping into.
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