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Sheer beauty from start to finish. Some reputations in cinema are over-flated. So what of Jean Vigo, whose career output consisted of three shorts and one feature?
Widely considered one of the all time great film directors, is his legend really deserved on the strength of one full length film?
Oh yes and then some! His short montages 'A Propos de Nice', and 'Taris', a beautiful portrait of champion swimmer, Jean Taris, show a delightful touch and grace of a film-maker still developing his craft.
But it was his anarchic... more info
The Complete Jean Vigo This excellent collection of Jean Vigo's films demonstrate his exraordinary talent as a film maker. Innovative, spectacular, fascinating, humorous, angry - seemingly showing a delight in capturing the many varied and colourful aspects of humanity, whilst also containing elements of subversion and anarchy. Despite all this, Vigo is acutely aware of the possibilities of film as an art form. The short films are brilliant and have proved to be influential, however, for me, the outstanding work from this... more info
Have you seen his other one? There is little to be added to the many metres of critical acclaim for Vigo's films. I would say though, if you haven't seen his short film Taris, on the French Olympic swimmer, buy this dvd for that purpose and then sit back and let yourself get quite taken away by his L'Atalante
Stellar Collection The French director Jean Vigo died tragically before his 30th birthday, but by then he had already directed two masterpieces in "Zero de Conduite" (a tale of schoolboy rebellion based partly on his own experiences, and very much an inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's "if..." made over 30 years later) and "L'Atalante".
The latter film in particular is still astonishing and captivating 70 years on from its first release. Vigo takes a rather trite boy-meets-girl story and, through imaginative direction and a... more info
