Article: POETIC, SPELLBINDING EXCURSION WITH 'L'ATALANTE'

Strictly speaking, Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934) can't be called a rediscovery. It has never been long out of the repertoire. But its return to the Coolidge Corner Moviehouse in Brookline (in a print that restores nine minutes) provides the kind of bountiful satisfactions that fewer and fewer films are interested in supplying. Like the Coolidge -- itself a 57-year-old beneficiary of heart-lifting reclamation -- it offers a richness of experience on a poetic level that is rarer and rarer in the contemporary film world.

Shortly after "L'Atalante" opened in 1934, Vigo died of tuberculosis at the age of 29, convinced his film was a failure. But the differences between this work and most ...

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