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Jean Vigo

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Jean Vigo (26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director known for the poetic, formally innovative films L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite and for influential short documentaries such as his film about swimmer Jean Taris. He died of tuberculosis at 29.

Born 26 April 1905; died 5 October 1934 of tuberculosis. Directed À propos de Nice (1930), Taris (early 1930s), Zéro de conduite (Zero for Conduct, 1933) and L'Atalante (1934). Praised by later critics (including François Truffaut) and subject to censorship during his lifetime.

DeBaser reviews celebrate Jean Vigo as an influential, poetic filmmaker. L'Atalante is praised as a masterpiece of visual poetry and human feeling. Reviews note Vigo's formal innovations and censorship troubles. The short documentary on swimmer Jean Taris is highlighted as an early avant-garde sound work.

For:cinephiles, film students, admirers of classic French and avant-garde cinema

 L'Atalante thus becomes a modern ark carrying the major existential states of the human journey towards death: being a man, being a woman, being young, and being old.

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 "The censorship has mutilated my film and look how much infamy!" (J. Vigo)

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 Virtually perfect, this innovative documentary work on the swimmer Jean Taris, restored in 2017 and the first sound experience by Jean Vigo, was commissioned by the recently formed Major GFFA (Gaumont, Franco-Film, and Aubert).

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