L'atalante, (1934)

Jules holds the skirt against himself for Juliette A French period piece about a married couple, Jean and Juliette, who live and operate a working barge on the canals and rivers of France. There is also a boy and an old halfwit, Père Jules.

Juliette is doing some sewing, and Jules comes in to talk to her. 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.

HF April 2005



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