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Rating: 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).
Not much considered by Vigo's scholars, this is a decidedly avant-garde didactic film for its time, in terms of style and filming techniques, practically a ten-minute artistic tutorial, ironic and fun, at times even risqué, on the various swimming forms interpreted by the French champion, where the accuracy and boldness of the images, especially those underwater, foreshadow the glorious Atalante soon to come.
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