Atalante (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Atalante |
| Original title | L'Atalante |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Vigo |
| script | Jean Vigo, Albert Riéra |
| production | Julius L. Nounez |
| music | Maurice Jaubert |
| camera | Boris Kaufman |
| cut | Louis Chavance |
| occupation | |
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Atalante (original title: L'Atalante ) is a feature film by the French director Jean Vigo from 1934. Initially rejected by critics and audiences, the film was rediscovered after the Second World War and is now considered a milestone in film history.
action
The young Juliette marries Jean, the captain of the inland freighter L'Atalante , in order to leave her village and to accompany him on his voyages from now on. Together with the idiosyncratic assistant Père Jules and an unnamed cabin boy, they set off on their way. The life of the young couple on board is characterized by love, strife and reconciliation. Juliette longs for the allure of the capital Paris, which she hears about on the radio. When they finally stop in Paris, she is hoping for an unforgettable evening with Jean. But Père Jules leaves the ship himself for flimsy reasons to be read by a fortune teller and to explore the city's pubs. Since the cargo cannot be left unguarded, the two have no choice but to wait for the assistant to return. When he finally comes on board completely drunk, it is too late for the couple's plans.
Finally, further downstream, in a suburb of Paris, there is the opportunity to visit a dance hall. There Juliette is ensnared by a traveling merchant who invites her to dance and tells her about the fascination of the big city. The jealous Jean can fight off the rival, but Juliette's longing has now grown so great that she secretly sneaks away at night to take the train to Paris. When she returns to the dock at the end of the day, the freighter has disappeared. Offended in his honor, Jean had given the order to cast off. Juliette is now on her own. After her money was stolen at the train station, she ended up in a poor hostel. Meanwhile, the crew of L'Atalante goes about their work, but Jean seems increasingly indifferent and apathetic. Finally, Père Jules takes matters in hand and goes to Paris to look for Juliette. He finds her and brings her aboard the ship, where the couple hug each other with relief.
background
After an unsuccessful trial screening, the film was released in cinemas in September 1934 under the title Le Chaland qui passe . Vigo died shortly after the premiere of blood poisoning as a result of his tuberculosis disease . It was not until 1990 that the original cut version was restored by Jean-Louis Bompoint and Pierre Philippe on behalf of Gaumont , primarily based on a copy of the film discovered by Bompoint in the British National Film and Television Archive . This version was first presented to the public at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival . After the version restored in 1990 was criticized by some critics as "too enthusiastic" due to the almost complete integration of the available material, the film was restored again in 2001 by Bernard Eisenschitz and Vigo's daughter Luce and some scenes from the 1990 version were removed. As a result, there was a sharp dispute between Bompoint and Eisenschitz.
reception
The American video artist Karen Yasinsky created several animations based on Jean Vigo's groundbreaking film. She used still images from Vigo's film as source material and devoted herself to the reconstruction of the narrative and the creation of new characters.
The Lexicon of International Films writes: “The only full-length feature film by Jean Vigo, who died at the age of 29, that tells the banal story in a sensitive mixture of poetry and reality with social commitment. - Worth seeing from 16. "The US film critic Roger Ebert gave the film the highest rating of four stars and included it in his Great Movies list :" It's on many lists of the best films of all time, an award that makes you forget how down-to-earth it's like right in his narrative of a fresh marriage with a bumpy start. "
literature
- Christian von Tschilschke : A road movie sui generis: Jean Vigo's 'L'Atalante' (1933/34) and the French barge film of the 1920s / 30s. In: transgression and self-reflection. Road movies in Romania. Edited by Kirsten von Hagen, Ansgar Thiele. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2013 (= Siegen Research on Romance Literature and Media Studies 24), ISBN 978-3-86057-516-1 , pp. 13–38.
- Marina Warner : L'Atalante . BFI Publishing, London 1993, ISBN 978-1-84457-888-7 (en).
Web links
- Atalante in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Atalante at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the result of the 2012 Sight & Sound survey by Atalante on bfi.org.uk, accessed on December 20, 2012.
- ↑ Marie Anderson: Jean Vigos filigree film art ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kino-zeit.de, accessed on December 20, 2012.
- ↑ a b Michael Temple: Jean Vigo . Manchester University Press (2005), 108.
- ↑ Hommage à L'Atalante (1990), un film de Jean Vigo . In: marcel-carne.com from December 20, 2018.
- ↑ Michael Baute: Bernard Eisenschitz's film "Les Voyages de L'Atalante". In: kunst-der-vermittlung.de, accessed on December 20, 2012.
- ^ The dispute over "L'Atalante". Some observations on the work of film restoration, from a conversation with Bernard Eisenschitz . In: kunst-der-vermittlung.de, accessed on August 2, 2020.
- ↑ Art in General. In: artingeneral.org. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
- ^ Karen Yasinsky: L'Atalante - kunstaspekte - artaspects. In: kunstaspekte.de. September 21, 2007, accessed August 6, 2016 .
- ^ Atalante at the film service. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: L'Atalante Movie Review & Film Summary (1934) | Roger Ebert. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
