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| Jean
Vigo |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Editor / Producer |
| 1905 - 1934 |
| Born April 26,
Paris, France |
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Production Country: France
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Key Genres:
Short Film, Drama, Documentary |
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Collaborators: Boris Kaufman (Cinematographer),
Louis Lefevre
(Leading Player),
Jean Daste (Leading Player), Maurice
Jaubert (Composer) |
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Highly
Recommended: Zero
for Conduct (1933), L'Atalante (1934) |
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Recommended:
À
propos de Nice (1929) |
| Links:
[ IMDB
] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Derek
Malcolm's Century of Films: L'Atalante
] [ World
Cinema Directors Profile
] |
| Books: [
Jean
Vigo ] [
Jean Vigo (French Film Directors ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Zero
for Conduct (1933), L'Atalante (1934) |
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"Vigo
was one of cinema's finest poets, able to transcend mundane
reality with his unique blend of lyricism, wit, sensuality and
surrealism. His distaste for authority, injustice and inequality
was balanced by a love of individuality, innocence and
independence...Tragically, he diedat 29, having made only one
full-length feature; nevertheless, he remains one of cinema's
greatest, most influential masters." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"L'Atalante
is a masterpiece of mood and characterization, and, along with
Zéro de conduite, it guarantees Vigo's status as a great
director. But he was not granted that status by the critical
community until years after his death. Because of the vagaries
of film exhibition and censorship, Vigo was little known while
he was making films. He received nowhere near the acclaim given
to his contemporaries Jean Renoir and
René Clair." -
(Eric Smoodin (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991) |
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"Few
other directors with such a short filmography have had such a
profound influence on other film-makers as Jean Vigo. The son of
an anarchist who died in prison in 1917, Jean Vigo inherited his
father's anti-authoritarian ideas." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"Truly a poet of the cinema, Vigo's early death ended what
probably would have been a brilliant career. He made only four
films, but they stand as a valuable body of work which reflects
a profound, if cynical, humanism and a complex sense of fantasy." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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