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Article: `L'Atalante'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 15, 2000
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To live happily ever after with the one you love, you must be able
to live with them at all. It is not that simple. Little problems must
be worked out. She does not like cats on the table while she is
eating. He has a closet filled with a year's dirty laundry. She
treasures their private moments together. He treasures his best
friend, who is bearded and garrulous and arrives at meals in an
undershirt. She wants to see Paris. He worries about his work. You
see how it is.
Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934) tells such a love story. It is on
many lists of the greatest films, a distinction that obscures how
down to earth it is, how direct in its story of a new marriage off to
a shaky start. The ...