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Special Features
New high-definition digital restorations of all of Jean Vigo’s films: À propos de Nice, Taris, Zéro de conduite, and L’Atalante, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
Audio commentaries featuring Michael Temple, author of Jean Vigo
Alternate shots from À propos de Nice, featuring footage Vigo cut from the film
Animated tribute to Vigo by filmmaker Michel Gondry
Ninety-minute 1964 episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps on Vigo, directed by Jacques Rozier
Conversation from 1968 between filmmakers François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer on L’Atalante
Les voyages de “L’Atalante,” Bernard Eisenschitz’s 2001 documentary tracking the history of the film
Video interview from 2007 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo
New and improved English subtitle translations
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film writers Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Luc Sante
Editorial Reviews
Even among cinema’s greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo’s films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo’s titles: À propos de Nice, an absurdist, rhythmic slice of life from the bustling coastal city of the title; Taris, an inventive short portrait of a swimming champion; Zéro de conduite, a radical, delightful tale of boarding-school rebellion that has influenced countless filmmakers; and, of course, L’Atalante, widely regarded as one of cinema’s finest achievements, about newlyweds beginning their life together on a canal barge. These are the endlessly witty, visually adventurous works of a pivotal film artist.
À propos de Nice, 1930, 23 min, B&W, Silent, 1.33:1
Taris, 1931, 9 min, B&W, Mono, In French with English subtitles, 1.19:1
Zéro de conduite, 1933, 44 min, B&W, Mono, In French with English subtitles
L’Atalante, 1934, 85 min, B&W, Mono, In French with English subtitles, 1.33:1
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
62 of 70 people found the following review helpful
By W. N.
Format:Blu-ray
Sight unseen.... the Blu-ray DVD has not yet been released. I have however seen all of these films, and own l'Atalante on DVD--which improved the quality of this very old movie. In Blu-ray it will probably be further improved, but I cannot speak to that.
For me there is no movie more romantic and heartfelt than L'Atalante. It's story is simple enough, a young couple is married in a small town and then begins married life on Seine River barge heading for Paris. The deck hand is Michel Simon, (Boudu Saved From Drowning -Jean Renoir) in another funny role. They arrive in Paris, complications ensue... L'Atalante inspired the French New Wave, especially Francois Truffaut, Claude Lelouch and Jacques Rivette. It's one of the great treasures.
Zero de Conduite - is about a rebellion in a boarding school and established that genre. Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados and Truffaut's the 400 Blows, quote directly from it.
A Propos de Nice and Taris are a City Film and a study of a swimming champion. They will seem very dated, but if you love movies, city films-films about cities-are interesting, both historically, and for the film techniques they used. The qualities of these short movies led directly to Vigo being allowed to make his two feature films.
I can't say enough about Jean Vigo and especially L'Atalante and Zero de Conduit.
For me there is no movie more romantic and heartfelt than L'Atalante. It's story is simple enough, a young couple is married in a small town and then begins married life on Seine River barge heading for Paris. The deck hand is Michel Simon, (Boudu Saved From Drowning -Jean Renoir) in another funny role. They arrive in Paris, complications ensue... L'Atalante inspired the French New Wave, especially Francois Truffaut, Claude Lelouch and Jacques Rivette. It's one of the great treasures.
Zero de Conduite - is about a rebellion in a boarding school and established that genre. Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados and Truffaut's the 400 Blows, quote directly from it.
A Propos de Nice and Taris are a City Film and a study of a swimming champion. They will seem very dated, but if you love movies, city films-films about cities-are interesting, both historically, and for the film techniques they used. The qualities of these short movies led directly to Vigo being allowed to make his two feature films.
I can't say enough about Jean Vigo and especially L'Atalante and Zero de Conduit.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Lee Roy Tree
Format:DVD
Jean Vigo is one of the best directors you might not have heard of until recently. This set completely does his work justice. I have the dvd version, and the transfers are absolutely gorgeous. There are informative commentaries, in depth episodes, an interview with Truffaut and Rohmer about the man and his work (and the short amount of time he had to do it), and a neat little tribute from the director Michael Gondry. This set is essential to any lover of cinema, and its storied beginnings. Get it.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Bkrdr
Format:DVD
The Criterion Collection is a beacon of light for film aficionados. For those of you who are not familiar with his work, I do not want to influence your experience. Have your own first impression. For anyone who has seen the work of Jean Vigo (preferable of film screened in a theater with an engaged audience), I do not need to tell you what a master and early innovator he was. He was a great story teller and his influence has been far reaching to every generation of great directors after him. Even those young directors who don't know his work were influenced by his followers.
Thank you Criterion, for continuing to broaden and show appreciation for the medium of film. This was a great inclusion to your canon.
Thank you Criterion, for continuing to broaden and show appreciation for the medium of film. This was a great inclusion to your canon.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure movie magic
Jean Vigo made only 200 minutes of feature films in his short lifetime (he died at 28 or 29) -- some of the finest minutes in the history of cinema. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Alan Fischer
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Beautiful Package
I first saw these films on a VHS transfer from un-restored reels. Even so, I loved these little gems. I did something i rarely do, I bought a copy for myself. Read more
Published 4 months ago by David Saltaire
5.0 out of 5 stars
The complete Jean Vigo
I have seen thousands of movies. This collection is one of the few I give a full five star rating. I did so with full recognition of a biased objectivity. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Frank P
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow
Amazing. For the first time I feel like I've really seen L'Atalante, and I've seen projected prints. Both the films and the technical quality of this blu-ray are superior. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ken Volok
5.0 out of 5 stars
Its About Time! Vigo is Available Thanks to Criterion.
Accessing Vigo's works has been a challenge until Criterion recently issued this 2 disc set. The image and sound quality has been restored as well as they can be. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Richard M. Sola
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Definitive Vigo Collection
This terrific collection, put together with care and attentiveness by Criterion, is a must for any cinephile. Read more
Published 15 months ago by M. Dubitzky
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wandering nothing.
Not any great art here. The shameless hype in the advertising notes won't make the films watchable. Like an elementary school kid's first attempt with a camera. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Shock Writer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Born
"L'Atalante" is not perhaps the greatest film ever, but it is the most original, in the sense that watching it is like a look at origins -- it is as if in watching l'Atalante you... Read more
Published 15 months ago by toronto
5.0 out of 5 stars
You Want to See What We're All Talking About
"The Complete Jean Vigo," consists of three short, early silent works of the French filmmaker, "A propos de Nice,""Taris," and "Zero de conduite," along with "L'Atalante,"... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Stephanie DePue
5.0 out of 5 stars
OLD MOVIES
I AM A GREAT FAN OF OLD MOVIES, AND THIS SELECTION IS JUST WONDERFUL !! INTERESTING AND FANTASTIC MOVIES, SUCH AS "THE ATALANTE".
Published 16 months ago by Helena Novak
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