{{Short description|French film critic (1931 – 2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}}
'''Luce Vigo''' (30 June 1931 – 12 February 2017) was a French film critic, programmer and educator. She was the only child of director Jean Vigo (1905 – 1934), and championed the work of her father.
==Biography== Luce Vigo lost her parents at a young age. She was raised by the journalist Louis Martin-Chauffier and his wife Simone, and also by Claude Aveline. Aveline was the executor of the will of her father, who died in 1934 when she was only three years old and whom she never had the chance to know. Her mother was Elisabeth "Lydou" Lozinska (1906 – 1939), who married Jean in January 1929.<ref name="huma"/><ref name="monde"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Salles Gomes |first1=P. E. |title=Jean Vigo |date=1957 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-19610-1 |page=51 |edition=1998}}</ref>
Luce Vigo became a psychology student, and went to Morocco where she developed an interest in cinema. She was a film critic for ''L'Humanité'', ''Regards'', and ''{{ill|Jeune Cinéma|fr}}'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gester |first1=Julien |title=Disparition de Luce Vigo |url=https://www.liberation.fr/cinema/2017/02/12/disparition-de-luce-vigo_1548073/ |work=Libération |access-date=28 November 2025 |language=fr |date=12 February 2017 |trans-title=Disappearance of Luce Vigo}}</ref> and managed a cinema in Bobigny.
She was the driving force behind the Prix Jean Vigo, awarded annually to a director, and also organised the Épinay Short Film Festival (''Rencontres d’Épinay du court métrage'').<ref name="huma">{{cite news |title=Disparition. Luce Vigo, une grande dame engagée dans le cinéma |url=https://www.humanite.fr/culture-et-savoir/luce-vigo/disparition-luce-vigo-une-grande-dame-engagee-dans-le-cinema |work=L'Humanité |access-date=29 November 2025 |language=fr |date=14 February 2017 |trans-title=Obituary. Luce Vigo, a great lady dedicated to cinema}}</ref>
Vigo married the journalist and film critic {{ill|Émile Breton (journaliste)|lt=Émile Breton|fr}}. She had five children.
She died in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on 12 February 2017, at the age of 85.<ref name="monde">{{cite news |last1=Sotinel |first1=Thomas |title=Mort de Luce Vigo, cinéphile, fille de Jean Vigo |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2017/02/14/mort-de-luce-vigo-cinephile-fille-de-jean-vigo_5079378_3476.html#LEqLvfyFA6qOPqXd.99 |access-date=29 November 2025 |work=Le Monde |date=14 February 2017 |language=fr |trans-title=Death of Luce Vigo, film enthusiast, daughter of Jean Vigo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Acte de décès de Luce Vigo |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/kH_xbDeHyKm4 |website=Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques |access-date=29 November 2025 |language=fr |trans-title=Death certificate of Luce Vigo}}</ref>
==Publications== * Luce Vigo, {{ill|Émile Breton (journaliste)|lt=Émile Breton|fr}} (dir.), "Le groupe des Trente, un âge d’or du court métrage ?" [The Group of Thirty: A Golden Age of Short Film?], ''{{ill| Bref (revue)|lt=Bref|fr}}'', no. 20, Spring 1994 * Luce Vigo and Catherine Shapira, ''Kirikou et la sorcière de Michel Ocelot'' [Kirikou and the Sorceress by Michel Ocelot], Les Enfants de cinéma (Carnets de notes sur...), 2000 * Luce Vigo, ''Jean Vigo : une vie engagée dans le cinéma'' ["Jean Vigo: a life committed to cinema"], Cahiers du cinéma, 2002 * Luce Vigo, "Jean Vigo, cineaste" [Jean Vigo, filmmaker], ''Célébrations nationales'', ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, 2005 * Luce Vigo, Agnès Varda et Véronique Godard, ''Détours, de Oaxaca à Tannay'' [Detours, from Oaxaca to Tannay], Filigranes Éditions, 2010
==Further reading== * {{cite web |last1=Linssen |first1=Dana |title=À Propos de Pamplona: The 6th Punto de Vista Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Navarra |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2010/festival-reports/a-propos-de-pamplona-the-6th-punto-de-vista-festival-internacional-de-cine-documental-de-navarra |website=Festival Report |publisher=Senses of Cinema |access-date=29 November 2025 |date=July 2010}} * {{cite AV media |people=Cohen, Jem (director) |date=2010 |title=Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo |type=motion picture |url=https://www.criterionchannel.com/crossing-paths-with-luce-vigo}} * {{cite web |last1=Rapold |first1=Nicolas |title=Son of Anarchy, Father of a Critic: A Tribute to Jean Vigo at UCLA |url=https://www.laweekly.com/son-of-anarchy-father-of-a-critic-a-tribute-to-jean-vigo-at-ucla |website=LA Weekly |access-date=29 November 2025 |date=7 April 2011}} * {{cite news |last1=Pons |first1=Valérie |title=Luce Vigo, l'amour du cinéma |url=https://www.lindependant.fr/2012/07/19/luce-vigo-l-amour-du-cinema,153474.php |access-date=29 November 2025 |work=L'Indépendant |date=19 July 2012 |language=fr |trans-title=Luce Vigo, a lover of cinema}} * {{cite web |title=Tribute to Luce Vigo |url=https://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/tribute-to-luce-vigo |website=Punto de Vista |publisher=Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival |access-date=29 November 2025 |date=2017}} * {{cite web |title=Bon voyage chère Luce! |url=https://infoficc.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/bon-voyage-chere-luce |website=info-FICC |publisher=International Federation of Film Societies- Féderation Internationalle des Ciné-clubs- Federación Internacional de Cine Clubes |access-date=29 November 2025}}
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