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L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Dec
16
on a river
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.
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La Terra Trema [The Earth Will Tremble] (Luchino Visconti, 1948)
Dec
8
Féte des Lumiéres
“In Sicily, Italian is not the language of the poor.”
– title card
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E la nave va [And the Ship Sails On] (Federico Fellini, 1983)
May
5
National Concert Day
The opera world is in mourning. Edmea Tetua, the greatest singer of all time, has passed away. On a grande ocean liner, her friends, colleagues, admirers have come together to scatter Edmea's ashes near Erimo, the island where she was born.
“This is the funny thing abut sea voyages. After a few days, you feel as if you'd been sailing forever. You feel you've always known your fellow voyagers.”
During a tour of the ship, the passengers visit the boiler room where – urged on by the engine room crew – an impromptu operatic competition unfolds, all to the pulsating rhythm of the steamliner's bloated belly.
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