Jean Vigo - Brossura

This book traces the extraordinary circumstances of Jean Vigo's life and career. Born out of wedlock in a Paris garret full of cats, and haunted all his life by the injustice done to his father - a militant anarchist who was murdered in a French prison in 1917 - Jean Vigo spent most of his working life battling against authorities wary of his political background, against censors suspicious of the subversive nature of his films, and against a tubercular condition which finally killed him in 1934 at the age of twenty-nine. Vigo made only four films. Two of them are experimental shorts, but the other two - Zero de Conduite and L'Atalante - are poetic, anarchic, violent, dream-like creations which are among the seminal works of the French cinema. This biography was originally written in 1957, but this edition contains an afterword bringing the material up-to-date.