Also known as
L'Atalante
Lists
- ranked 14 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 16 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- ranked 17 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 37 in Edward Copeland's Satyajit Ray Memorial Anything-But-Definitive List of Non-English Language Films
- ranked 52 in Chicago Tribune 100 Best Films of the Century
- ranked 67 in Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of Empire's 250 Greatest Films You've Never Seen
- one of Guardian 1,000 films to see before you die
- one of Movieline's 100 Best Foreign Films
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
The film would be nothing without Michel Simon's wonderful Père Jules, but him to round it out and fill it in the romance between Juliette (Dita Parlo) and Jules's gruff captain, Jean (Jean Dasté), manages to seem real and not trite. A genuine classic.