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Even among cinemas greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. 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. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunuel, Vigos films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigos titles: A PROPOS DE NICE, ZIRO DE CONDUITE, and LATALANTE.

Special Features:

• New high-definition digital restorations of all four of Jean Vigo’s films
• Audio commentaries featuring Michael Temple, author of Jean Vigo
• Score for À propos de Nice by Marc Perrone, from 2001
• Alternate edits from À propos de Nice, featuring footage cut by Vigo
• Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps about Vigo, from 1964
• Conversation from 1968 between filmmakers François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer on L’Atalante
• Animated tribute to Vigo by filmmaker Michel Gondry
• Les voyages de “L’Atalante,” film restorer and historian Bernard Eisenschitz’s 2001 documentary tracking the history of the film
• Video interview from 2001 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo
• New essays by critics Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Lucy Sante