Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

Cinéastes de notre temps: Jean Vigo follows the intimate journey of a pioneering filmmaker whose brief career reshaped documentary and narrative cinema. Through a reflective tapestry of footage, interviews, and archival moments, the film traces Vigo’s relentless curiosity, his fearless experiments with form, and the poetic impulse that drives his work. It reveals a passionate artist wrestling with constraints and time, whose ideas illuminate the power of cinema to capture truth, memory, and a fragile sense of wonder.