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Jean Vigo (French:; 26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Apr 16, 2005 · In celebration of the centenary of his birth on April 26, 1905, the French Cinémathèque hosted a retrospective, the start of a yearlong international journey. On his birthday, the Jean Vigo...
The Complete Jean Vigo. Even among cinema’s legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine.
May 8, 2020 · The 179th Best Director of All-Time: Jean Vigo. Vigo. Jean Vigo’s influence and impact on generations of cinema lovers and future auteurs is greater than his tragically truncated filmography.
Aug 31, 2011 · Zéro de conduite (1933) is a fiction film, a dense forty-four minutes long, told in elliptical jolts and leaps, portraying a rebellion in a boy’s boarding school. Vigo’s empathy for the kid insurrectionists is heightened by his audacious, hilarious depiction of imbecile authority figures.
(1905-1934) Born April 26, Paris, France. Top 250 Directors. Key Production Country: France. Key Genres: Drama, Documentary, Short Films, Romantic Drama, Marriage Drama, Coming-of-Age.
Jul 19, 2002 · Of all cinema’s illustrious martyr figures, none is more romantic than Jean Vigo, poet maudit of ’30s French cinema, dead at 29 after a long struggle with tuberculosis, leaving a filmography that can be screened in just over three hours and which, during his lifetime, showed every sign of vanishing into oblivion.