Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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.

Bifrost_NOR Jean Vigo had a short career, he made only 3 short films and one feature before he died of tuberculosis just a few months after finishing L'atalante.Jean Vigo got a great sense of humor throughout all of his films, this one is no different. it falls under the category Romance/Drama but i would add Comedy too.Jean Vigo's short films were all revolutionary for their own reasons, but instead of trying to revolutionize more i feel you aimed for quality. of cource it is also revolutionary since it is a very different love story, i am going to come back to that later.The film is a bit outdated (which is to be expected from a film from '34) for me that has nothing to say, but some people might feel that takes away some of the enjoyment, which is why i mentioned it.It's about a marriage who get's torn apart by nothing, by minor differences in personality. The newly married couple finds out that they are not able to live whit each other, but after being separated a couple of days they find out that they are not able to live without each other either.Jean is a serious, good, but boring man, throughout the film we see that Juliette finds the more special men more attractive even if being special is either a positive or negative thing.There is great imagery all the way through and the story is really original, no wonder it is frequently mentioned on top 10 best movies list Etc.9/10 Fantastic

wandereramor L'Atalante is one of those films that doesn't really survive it's critical reputation. It's not so much that it's overrated as that its status as a Cinematic Masterpiece by a French Auteur casts a heavy burden on it which the light, airy film can't escape.But enough meta-criticism. Taken on its own, L'Atalante is a charming film about a honeymoon whose light nature and relaxed pace manages to immerse the audience in a realm of simple pleasure. There's little dialogue, and Vigo draws on the attractions of silent film, with a lot of light humour and simple representational images. It's a world you would want to step into, and one that you almost think you can.Alas, things cannot stay so serene forever, and so trouble eventually arrives in our honeymooners' relationship. The plot is believable and well-observed, if not exactly captivating, but I have to say I missed the more leisurely early parts.I can't help but compare L'Atalante with a film with a similar storyline and inverted structure, F. W. Murnau's Sunrise. L'Atalante undeniably comes off worse in the comparison: it simply doesn't achieve the epic grandeur that Sunrise does. That doesn't mean it's bad, but it seems unavoidably like a prototype for a film released in the previous decade, and that makes it hard to live up to the hype. Still, it's a nice experience, and that's more than you can say about most films.

clivey6 A group of barge cats are disgruntled to find their floating abode taken over by a film crew making a movie in which nothing much happens for the first hour. So they decide to take off, to see the sights of Paris. Meanwhile, the director is distraught when mice begin to take over the vessel, and one of the crew is dispatched to search for them.In this clear precursor to Disney's The Aristocats, the fleeing felines hole up with a jazz quartet in the Montmatre district and... okay, okay, that's not the film at all, but in fairness there are times when you might wish it was. In a 90 minute movie, it's an hour before the central event, the newlywed bride, heads off to Paris on her own. Until then, it's something of nothing, rather humdrum life on a barge and it doesn't help if you're at the cinema, cos they never crank the sound up on these old flicks, it never feels too cinematic. The couple are not that charming together, their fellow bargees the wrong side of eccentric and only the cats keep it together. That said, I reckon Hitchcock might have used a couple of things for The 39 Steps the following year; the blonde's Madeleine Carroll taking off her stockings, and the idea of a young bride smitten with talk of the city sights.The ending did move me, but in a way because it's almost the only meaningful thing that occurs in the movie.