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Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté in L’atalante (1934)

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German film actress Dita Parlo on a vintage postcard

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Dita Parlo, September 4, 1908 – December 12, 1971.

Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante (1934).

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Don't you know you can see your beloved's face in the water?

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Jean Vigo and Dita Parlo on the set of “L’Atalante”, 1934.

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The Grand Illusion by Jean Renoir (1937)

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L'Atalante (1934) Jean Vigo

June 24th 2023

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Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté in L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

Cast: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre, Maurice Gilles, Raphaël Diligent. Screenplay: Jean Guinet, Albert Riéra, Jean Vigo. Cinematography: Boris Kaufman. Art direction: Francis Jourdan. Film editing: Louis Chavance. Music: Maurice Jaubert. 

L'Atalante is one of those near-universally acclaimed film masterpieces that failed theatrically on their first release and were rediscovered and re-evaluated more than a decade later. But it's also one of those films that young contemporary movie lovers may not "get" on first viewing today. I remember my own reaction to films like The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) and L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960), movies that didn't fit what I expected from being raised on energetic, plot-driven, star-centered American movies. Melancholy and irony are not widely praised American values, although lord knows we have plenty of it in the best American literature. They surfaced for a time in the best American films of the 1970s, but have been driven back into the underground by the blockbuster mentality. There was a time, even after the great cinematic awakening of the '70s when I found myself resenting film critics for their inability to appreciate popular movies I liked: "Critics see too many movies to enjoy them," I sniffed. But the truth is, the more movies you see, the more you're able to appreciate those that don't walk the line, that don't instantly gratify the hunger for plot resolution, for spectacle, for something that sends you out of the theater blissfully untroubled by thought. L'Atalante confused and bored its contemporary viewers, but today those of us who love it do so because it seems to us alternately tender and brutal, simultaneously comic and touching, and, taken as a whole, one of the few movies that successfully transport us to a time and place and a company of human beings we have never found ourselves in the middle of before. It is also, despite years of mishandling and cutting and botched attempts at restoration, one of the most technically dazzling films ever made. The performances -- by Michel Simon as the rather gross Père Jules, Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté as the young couple trying to start married life on a cramped river barge, and Gilles Margaritis as the madcap peddler who almost wrecks their marriage -- are extraordinary. Cinematographer Boris Kaufman overcame the severe limitations of filming scenes in the cramped quarters below-decks as well as open-air scenes for which the weather refused to cooperate. Vigo and Kaufman stage visual compositions that have a freshness that never seems arty. And who can ever forget Simon's Père Jules clambering aboard the barge with a kitten on his shoulders? Every corner of L'Atalante is filled with life.

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German film actress Dita Parlo on a vintage postcard

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Dita Parlo, September 4, 1908 – December 12, 1971.

With Pierre Alcover in André Hugon’s La rue sans joie (1938).

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L'Atalante

🇫🇷 | Apr 24, 1934

directed by Jean Vigo

screenplay by Albert Riéra, Jean Guinée, Jean Vigo

produced by Jean-Louis Nounez

starring Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre

1h29 | Drama, Romance, Comedy

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L'Atalante (1934) Jean Vigo

Dita Parlo - Jean Vigo - source: bizarrela.com