He is noted for two highly significant films which significantly affected the future development of both French and world cinema: Zéro de Conduite (1933) (trans.:No Marks for Conduct) and L'Atalante (1934).
He also made two other films: A Propos de Nice (1929), a highly subversive silent film examining social inequity in 1920s Nice and the film Taris[?] (1931), an elegant motion study of swimmer Jean Taris[?].
His films have been depicted by some and certainly by contemporaneous political administrations as being unpatriotic and were consequently heavily censored by the French government.
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