A Rediscovered Cinema at the Cinema rendez-vous, continuing for the whole month of February, with the complete Jean Vigo retrospective.

Il Cinema Ritrovato al Cinema showcase, the Bologna Film Archive project bringing great classics and cult movies from film history back to the big screen in a restored version, is continuing in February with the complete Jean Vigo retrospective.

The work of Jan Vigo (1905-1934), consisting of just four titles due to his death at twenty-nine, is emblematic of the French poetic realism current at that time, of which Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, and later Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné, were important exponents.

The latest edition of Rediscovered Cinema at the Cinema Festival presented the whole restored work by this French director, curated by the Gaumont production company with the collaboration of the Cinémathèque Française, the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée) and the Immagine Ritrovata laboratories of the Bologna Film Archive. The task was made possible thanks to new technologies and research on the documents held in the archive of the filmmaker’s daughter, Luce Vigo (1931-2017), who recently passed away and to whose memory this edition of the festival was dedicated to.

Admission 7.50/5.00 euro.

Screenings calendar

Mon 5, at 4.00 p.m., Tue 6, at 8.30 p.m., Mon 12, at 6.00 p.m./Mon 19, at 4.00 p.m./Tue 20, at 8.30 p.m./Mon 26, at 6.00 p.m.

L’Atalante

(France 1934, 89', DCP, b/w, o.v. it. s/t)

Jean, the young captain of the Atalante ship, gets married to Juliette (Dita Parlo), a country girl, and takes her to live with him. But after a short while Juliette starts to get bored, and decides to run away, influenced by the tales of old sailor Jules (Michel Simon). Disillusioned by the city, the girl returns on the ship, and discovers there that her jealous husband has abandoned her...

Mon 5, at 6.00 p.m., Mon 12, at 4.00 p.m., Tue 13, at 8.30 p.m./Mon 19, at 6.00 p.m./Mon 26, at 4.00 p.m./Tue 27, at 8.30 p.m.

À propos de Nice

(France 1930, 25’, DCP, b/w, o.v. it. s/t)

After buying a second-hand camera, the twenty-five year-old filmmaker decides to film a documentary on Nice, focusing it on the monuments and on the landscapes in this tourist location. A meeting between Vigo and Boris Kaufman, however, changes the initial project.

Taris, roi de l’eau (Jean Taris, Swimming Champion )

(France 1931, 10’, DCP, b/w, o.v. it. s/t)

Documentary by Jean Vigo dated 1931, on French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is famous for its innovative filming techniques, such as close-up takes and ralenti on the swimmer’s body.

Zéro de conduit (Zero for Conduct)

(France 1933, 41’, DCP, b/w, o.v. it. s/t)

The holidays are over and it is time for some children to return to boarding-school, an austere place where the tutors, obtuse adults, inflict severe punishments on them and deprive them of freedom and creativity. Four children, punished with a "zero" for conduct, decide to rebel, with the aid of a new supervisor, closer to the youngsters’ mentality than to the other adults’ rigid one.