The Complete Jean Vigo (A propos de Nice / Taris / Zero de conduite / L'atalante) (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

A lifelong movie fan (and it was a short life; he died at age 29), Jean Vigo’s entire filmography runs less than three hours. Nevertheless, he ranks as one of the most influential of all French filmmakers and one who the French New Wave used as one of their foremost auteurs in fashioning their modern theories about movies and moviemakers. Vigo’s film output includes two nonfiction films and two narratives, and one can see even in this small amount of work a filmmaker constantly experimenting with the form and trying things out (and leaving them in the films) even when they might run counter to his purposes. A filmmaker who had a lightness of touch and a wicked sense of the absurd and a nose-thumbing attitude for the safe and conventional, Jean Vigo is certainly a moviemaker worth checking out. His complete oeuvre is contained in this one Criterion release on a single Blu-ray disc.

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