Jour De Fete
- 1948
- France
- 80 min
- U
- Directed by: Jacques Tati
- Cast: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble.
A rural French postie sees a film about the efficiency of the American mail service and decides to smarten up his act. This debut feature by Tati, effortlessly builds visual set-pieces and establishes the amiable duffer of a central role that was later to become the unforgettable M Hulot.
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French Film Festival
4 Nov 2009
Undoubtedly the biggest and strongest line up for a while, this year’s FFF UK selection is a feast of ancient and modern for Francophiles and cineastes alike. New film highlights include Anne Coco Before Chanel Fontaine’s comedy thriller The Girl from…
Jacques Tati - The Height of Comic Discretion
4 Nov 2009
Retrospective part of French Film Festival 2009
Nobody put it better than the French critic André Bazin when describing Jacques Tati thus: “he himself seems unfinished; one might speak of his ‘discretion of being’”. Born in 1907, Tati was certainly educationally incomplete. David Bellos in his…
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