Jour de Fête
Film details
| Film Title | Jour de Fête |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 70mins |
| Year | 1949 |
| Country | France |
| Director | Jacques Tati |
| Actors | Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur |
| Language | French (with Engflish subtitles) |
| AKA | The Big Day - Part of our Jacques Tati season |
| Showings |
A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
The originality of its design makes Tati’s cinema unfold as it were a series of Looney Tunes episodes envisioned by Robert Altman.
★★★★
The gags run on the laughably unintended interconnectedness of mechanical things, but in Tati’s wistful vision, the chain reactions leave behind merely the memories of missed connections.
★★★★★
