Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Casey Duggan
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Miss-Meggo
I don't have much to say about this film other than the fact that at 25 minutes in, I was considering shutting it off, but I decided to finish it because I didn't have anything else to do. I'm very glad I finished it. It was charming for reasons that I can't put into words.
quinimdb
"L'Atalante" is about two newlyweds that start their marriage on the husband's (Jean) boat. Juliette has never left her hometown, and she desperately wants to go to Paris, envisioning it as a paradise and utopia for her. Basically, she's a romantic. She even says that if you open your eyes underwater, you can see your beloved one, and that is where she first saw him. However, when she gets on the boat, Jean begins to kiss her, but Juliette pushes him away and starts walking back toward her family and friends and the town she is so familiar with. But as we see, her walking back is still going nowhere. She's already left. But then she turns around to see her husband running after her, with cats attacking him, and she realizes he is right there with her, and he is what she must focus on now.We find out that Jean gets jealous easily and is a bit overprotective in a scene involving a worker on the ship named le peré Jules. Jules is simply showing Juliette some items from his travels, but he is a bit sloppy and crude. Suddenly, Jean comes in and has a fit. He throws plates on the floor and overreacts. Then when they finally get to Paris, they can't go because of Jules. They do however stop in a nearby city, and Jean tries to make up for it by going there. But the trip goes awry when a street peddler begins to follow Juliette and she almost falls for his scams to make them buy something, since she is a romantic. Jean really loses it when he sees her dancing with him, and then once he says Juliette can no longer go out to the city, he tries to sneak her out. He finally leaves her alone, but she can't stop thinking about her potential night in the city, and decides to sneak out. Her romantic illusions are crushed after the first few hours of shopping and sight seeing however, when she sees the rudeness of the city dwellers and is mugged. The men take off, but Jean doesn't recover, and he realizes he cannot function without her. Juliette realizes the same and in one scene the shots of Juliette and Jean sleeping apart fade into each other to show that they are both thinking of each other. When Jules fixes the gramophone and Jean first hears that music, Jean jumps into the water in a desperate attempt to get a glimpse of his wife and finally sees her in the water, showing that to a certain extent, Juliettes romanticism was true. Then Jules realizes they need to find Juliette after their boss almost fires Jean. And of all places he finds her listening to that song they once sang her on the boat earlier in the film.While Jean was right in some ways in his protectiveness, and Juliette in her romanticism, they both had too much of it, and ultimately let those distract them from what really mattered, which was each other.
elvircorhodzic
In life nothing is easy. Even if you think that you are happy and in love. Before someone to love, it would be good to understand life with the person you love. Compared two lovers nothing is simple. Little problems must be worked out. What a love story. Jean Vigo offered us a story about people. The story about us. L'ATALANTE is somewhat unusual and confusing movie. In life nothing is easy. People are confused and different. In addition, they are able to love and to hate. The second feeling we ignore and commit to the film. L'Atalante is a film that everyone should see, but this movie is not for everyone. Maybe that's why I call it a jewel of cinema. Vigo challenged life and human relationships. The story seems simple. The main characters always act in a different way, but aspire to the same goal.Juliette is played by Dita Parlo. Positive and playful girl from the countryside. Ready to give love and attention to all that surrounds her. She wants to see Paris. She wants to feel Paris. Dita Parlo is mesmerizing. Jean Daste (Jean) is apparently determined and hard-working young guy. He's in love with his wife, but he has a lot to learn about the relationship between two people. Jealousy is not welcome if it violates nice person. He worries about his work.Michel Simon as Pere Jules in the film looks much older than it really is. I would say that the character is heart of the story. Inspired by the love of two young people. He understands them and lets them learn the lesson of life. One physical unforgettable character who has an interesting touch of humor.I think this movie's poetry of human relations.
museumofdave
If you have patience for a black and white foreign film that's seventy years old, that takes you to a world which no longer exists, a honeymoon on the Seine, the young couple attempting to find some romance amid quirky squalor, a sailor's world of work and drink, a place where a bride must learn to shift for herself when her husband fails to understand her need for a little magic, well-this is that film. An actor named Michel Simon essays an eccentric boatman who loves cats, keeps his perhaps-lovers severed hands in a jar, and who loves his old phonograph, steals much of the picture, but the cinematographer swipes even more, with moods of shadows and light hovering around some of the most erotic non-explicit lovemaking ever put on film. Director Vigo's longest film is a challenge to watch, but worth filing in your movie gems library. It is both groundbreaking and heart-warming, intelligent and experimental. L'Atlante is a classic that continues to earn it's status.
