L’Atalante

Jean Vigo: The Dreamer’s Uprising

August 6, 2025

Jean Vigo’s tragically short filmography blazes with anarchic spirit and poetic invention, marrying revolutionary politics with lyrical surrealism to liberate cinema from convention, and celebrate truth in its most rebellious, heartfelt forms.

L’Atalante (1934)

July 22, 2025

The canal barge which becomes home to newlyweds Jean and Juliette may feel like an oppressive enclosure at times, yet Jean Vigo’s lyrical direction of L’Atalante also reveals it to be a sanctuary of healing, guiding them on a journey to the marital bliss that has so far eluded them.