JeanVigo &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:JeanVigo @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:14:21 +0200 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rhhq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" on a river/div div class="img" L'Atalante (1934).gif)/div div class="caption" Juliette (Dita Parlo) in her bridal dress walks the cover of her husband's river barge L'Atalante. A steam barge putputs by (via). DP: Boris Kaufman./div div class="txt" Set on a river Jean: Are you bored? Juliette: Oh, no. Jean: Don't worry. There'll be places to see. Juliette: Riverbanks. ### the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #ships #rivers #JeanVigo #DitaParlo #JeanDasté #GillesMargaritis #LouisLefebvre #MauriceGilles #RaphaëlDiligent #MichelSimon #JacquesPrévert #MauriceJaubert #BorisKaufman #drama #romance #comedy #newlyweds #France #1930s/div /section ]]>

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

Dec

16

on a river

L'Atalante (1934)

Juliette (Dita Parlo) in her bridal dress walks the cover of her husband's river barge L'Atalante. A steam barge putputs by (via). DP: Boris Kaufman.

Set on a river*

Jean: Are you bored? Juliette: Oh, no. Jean: Don't worry. There'll be places to see. Juliette: Riverbanks.

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #ships #rivers #JeanVigo #DitaParlo #JeanDasté #GillesMargaritis #LouisLefebvre #MauriceGilles #RaphaëlDiligent #MichelSimon #JacquesPrévert #MauriceJaubert #BorisKaufman #drama #romance #comedy #newlyweds #France #1930s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rhhq Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0100 À propos de Nice - point de vue documenté [À propos de Nice] (Boris Kaufman +... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/a-propos-de-nice-1930 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" À propos de Nice - point de vue documenté [À propos de Nice] (Boris Kaufman + Jean Vigo, 1930)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" New Year's Day/div div class="img" À propos de Nice - point de vue documenté (1930)/div div class="caption" Exuberant prostitutes, Jean Vigo (5supth/sup from the left), and some who appear to be men in drag, dance on a landing with confetti all around them. In the moving footage they can be seen high-kicking with increased vulgarity, the camera posed below them. DP: Boris Kaufman./div div class="txt" Confetti for New Year's Day. "In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial… the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution." ### – Jean Vigo in his manifesto Vers un cinéma social /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #NewYear #confetti #BorisKaufman #JeanVigo #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #AvantGarde #documentary #satire #carnival #prostitution #Nice #France #1930s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

À propos de Nice – point de vue documenté [À propos de Nice] (Boris Kaufman + Jean Vigo, 1930)

Jan

1

New Year's Day

À propos de Nice - point de vue documenté (1930)

Exuberant prostitutes, Jean Vigo (5th from the left), and some who appear to be men in drag, dance on a landing with confetti all around them. In the moving footage they can be seen high-kicking with increased vulgarity, the camera posed below them. DP: Boris Kaufman.

Confetti for New Year's Day.

“In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial… the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution.”

– Jean Vigo in his manifesto Vers un cinéma social

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #NewYear #confetti #BorisKaufman #JeanVigo #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #AvantGarde #documentary #satire #carnival #prostitution #Nice #France #1930s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/a-propos-de-nice-1930 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Taris, roi de l'eau [Taris, King of the Water] (Jean Vigo, 1931) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/taris-roi-de-leau-1931 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Taris, roi de l'eau [Taris, King of the Water] (Jean Vigo, 1931)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" freebie: Swim A Lap Day/div div class="img" Taris, roi de l'eau (1931)/div div class="caption" Jean Taris in his element. DP: Boris Kaufman./div div class="txt" A proto-Jean Painlevé exercise avant la lettre.\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #SwimALapDay #JeanVigo #JeanTaris #BorisKaufman #documentary #biography #sports #AvantGarde #France #1930s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Taris, roi de l'eau [Taris, King of the Water] (Jean Vigo, 1931)

Jul

12

freebie: Swim A Lap Day

Taris, roi de l'eau (1931)

Jean Taris in his element. DP: Boris Kaufman.

A proto-Jean Painlevé exercise avant la lettre.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #SwimALapDay #JeanVigo #JeanTaris #BorisKaufman #documentary #biography #sports #AvantGarde #France #1930s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/taris-roi-de-leau-1931 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:48:16 +0200 Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège [Zero for Conduct] (Jean Vigo, 1933) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/xxtitleyear <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège [Zero for Conduct] (Jean Vigo, 1933)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" International Day Of Eduction/div div class="img" Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)/div div class="caption" The students on a rooftop, saluting as if part of an army. DP: Boris Kaufman./div div class="txt" "War is declared! Down with monitors and punishment! Long live rebellion! Liberty or death! Hoist our flag on the school roof! Stand firm with us tomorrow! We'll bombard them with rotten old books, dirty tin cans, smelly boots and all the ammo piled up in the attic! We'll fight those old goats on commemoration day! Onward!" ### – Tabard, one of the students\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalDayOfEduction #JeanVigo #GérardDeBédarieux #MauriceJaubert #BorisKaufman #education #comedy #surrealism #anarchy #France #1930s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège [Zero for Conduct] (Jean Vigo, 1933)

Jan

24

International Day Of Eduction

Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)

The students on a rooftop, saluting as if part of an army. DP: Boris Kaufman.

“War is declared! Down with monitors and punishment! Long live rebellion! Liberty or death! Hoist our flag on the school roof! Stand firm with us tomorrow! We'll bombard them with rotten old books, dirty tin cans, smelly boots and all the ammo piled up in the attic! We'll fight those old goats on commemoration day! Onward!”

– Tabard, one of the students

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalDayOfEduction #JeanVigo #GérardDeBédarieux #MauriceJaubert #BorisKaufman #education #comedy #surrealism #anarchy #France #1930s ★★★★½

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