Winter Shooting: L'Atalante - Rushes and Outtakes

A quiet, scholarly excavation of film fragments, rewarding patient viewers with the texture of restoration work and cinephile devotion.

Directed by

Bernard Eisenschitz

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Bernard Eisenschitz

Overview

Perhaps it speaks to the sheer power and beauty of L’Atalante that 40 years after its initial butchered release, critics and fans still seek to piece together Vigo’s vision – and debate the choices involved in that process. Bernard Eisenschitz, who was involved with Luce Vigo (daughter of Jean Vigo) in the 1990 reconstruction of this masterwork, takes us into the raw materials by which this complex film was re-envisioned and continues to be analyzed and changed today. An important vision of film as a tradition of viewership, curation and exploration.

How it feels

Measured and demanding.

About

Art, memory, obsession

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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