New Yorker Video has given us a beautiful restoration of Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante " (1934), the only full-length feature by an influential artist who died, at 29, shortly after a butchered version of his film was released.
Now we can see what so many other filmmakers have seen (and discussed reverentially) in this poetic story of a young barge captain on the Seine -- "L'Atalante" is the name of his boat -- and the lovely young woman he marries and almost loses.