Article: L'ATALANTE

L'ATALANTE

Material girls and boys may recall that Madonna adopted the moniker of Dila Parlo for her 1992 picture book Sex, and the title song on the accompanying Erotica album is sung in the voice of a character named Dita.

The real Dita Parlo was a Weimar-era screen charmer, born in Germany in 1908. With her flapper bob and irrepressible energy, Parlo was a hit in Germany but it was In France where she made the two films for which she is chiefly remembered. In Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion, Parlo was heartbreaking as a German war widow, but her most indelible role was that of Juliette, the innocent village girl of Jean Vigo's L'Atalante who marries a humble, humorless but otherwise ...

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