edwards drive-in

le pere jules, or papa jules, in l'atalante is now one of my favorite film characters. if you took gilbert gottfried and grew him about a foot and had him speak french, added a bunch of charm, you'd get this character. the movie itself is about a newly married couple who start their life together on a barge that the man is captain of. the couple doesn't get along well and problems ensue, but the plot almost doesn't matter. the movie seems alive at all times and you can feel that this movie was made by people who were around before sound came to the movies. there's also great sex scene that has no sex and the two characters are miles apart in different beds. and cats, did I mention the cats?