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A French period piece about a newly married couple, Jean and Juliette, who live on a barge (called "L'Atalante") on the canals and rivers of France. There is also a boy and an old halfwit, Père Jules.
Juliette is a headstrong girl, and married into the itinerant life of a barge owner's wife against the wishes of the women of her village. Jean and his small crew have not been used to female company, or proper housekeeping, and Juliette sets to in order to get things more homely.
When the barge berths at La Villette in Paris, Juliette wants Jean to take her out on the town, but he becomes surly and refuses. She goes on her own, and after unloading Jean starts the barge away without her, out of spite. A pickpocket steals what little money Juliette has and, abandoned in the big city, things look desperate for her. However Jean has a change of heart and returns for her, and Père Jules manages to find her, and the couple are reunited.
There is a subplot when Juliette is being friendly towards Père Jules; he is flattered by the mild flirting. Juliette has been doing some sewing, and she needs to adjust the hem of a skirt, and she makes him wrap the skirt around himself to help her see what needs to be done. As his mind wanders, he does a little pirouette in the skirt, and then a few seconds later he uses it as a toreador's cape in an imaginary bullfight.
The film has also been released as Le chaland qui passe, which means "The barge that passes by".
HF April 2005
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