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Inside the Box – Episode 18 – The Complete Jean Vigo
2023-11-18
Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Complete Jean Vigo. This box set contains the films À propos de Nice (1930), Taris (1988), Zéro de conduite (1933), and L’Atalante (1934).
Even among cinema’s legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. 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; 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 L’Atalante, widely regarded as one of cinema’s finest achievements, about newlyweds beginning their life together on a canal barge. These are the witty, visually adventurous works of a pivotal film artist.
Episode Links- The Complete Jean Vigo
- À propos de Nice (1930)
- Zéro de conduite (1933)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- Jean Vigo
- Wikipedia
- Far Out Magazine: “The Life and Times of Jean Vigo: The Man Who Influenced the French New Wave,” by Swapnil Dhruv Bose
- The New York Times: “Jean Vigo: A Short and Ferocious Life,” by Joan Dupont
- Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website)
- David Blakeslee (TikTok/Website)
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