Tuesday, April 24, 2007

L'Atalante (1934)

Embodies the phrase "nice little movie"...

I think all these calls to greatness obscure its little pleasures, the little scene in Jules's room (with possibly the scariest ass puppet I have ever seen), and especially the scene where 'the bossman' dives in the water because he misses his wife...that was pitch-perfect, and if I ever needed to show 'longing for a lover', I don't know that I could find a better, more well-made example than that...

It may not make my top 250, but it'll come damn close, 9/10

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