This movie was classified in a recent critics' poll as one of the best 100 films ever made. Though I don't put it on there in fact I liked it enough to classify it as a good one. Immediately after their wedding in church a young couple goes running to live in a barge where the husband is a skipper and navigates on river Seine. The action takes place within the barge most of the time which begins to annoy the wife. There besides they, only live and work a boy and and eccentric mate, Père Jules with his bunch of cats, acted by the great Michel Simon whose performance only by itself could make the film worth to be seen. Tensions between husband and wife begin to arise and turn out soon a bit dramatic as expected. Everything is told in lively images and some unexpected and surprising scenes. A firmly directed movie and well acted.
Review of L'Atalante
