Jour de Fête (U)
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Time Out says
Like Keaton before him, Tati devised gags of such sheer intricacy as to prove on occasion just too beautiful to be laughed at (it's no accident that the truly funniest talkies - Fields, the Marx Brothers - were hardly directed at all). In this, his first feature, reissued in its original 'splash colour' version (never shown at the time), an almost plotless tale of a village postman's endeavours to streamline his service à l'américaine is enhanced by a radiographic vision of rural minutiae which one might call hyper-realist, were it not for that term's sleek urban connotations. As for Tati the performer, he makes cycling along a tranquil country lane as spellbinding as if it were taking place on a high wire.Author: GAd
Release details
Rated:
U
UK release:
1948
Duration:
85 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Maine Vallee, Santa Relli, Paul Frankeur, Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Roger Rafal
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Screenwriter:
René Wheeler, Henri Marquet, Jacques Tati
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