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Jour de fête ( The Big Day) is a 1949 French comedy film starring Jacques Tati in his feature film directorial debut as an inept and easily distracted mailman in a backward French village. Shot largely in and around Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, where Tati had lived during the Occupation, most of the actors were unknown and villagers served as ...
- Jacques Tati
- Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur
- André Paulvé, Fred Orain
A postman with no sense of humour faces the challenges of his job and the travelling fair in a small town. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and learn more about the film's history and trivia.
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Jul 20, 2021 · Watch the 1949 French film Jour de fête (Celebration Day) by Jacques Tati, a master of silent and sound comedy. The film follows the adventures of a postman who is faced with a traveling fair and its absurdities.
- 87 min
Jour de fête. In his enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Even in this early work, Tati was brilliantly toying with the devices (silent visual gags, minimal yet deftly deployed sound effects) and exploring the theme (the absurdity of our ...
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Make 'em laugh. Once he had completed work on Jour de fête towards the end of 1947, Tati had some difficulty finding a distributor. It was so unlike any other film of the era (a time when cinema was dominated by glum melodramas and depressing war films) that it was considered a highly risky proposition.
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In a small French town, the local postman, scatterbrained and bumbling François (Jacques Tati), spends his working hours casually delivering the mail, while being the subject of the townsfolk's ...
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- Comedy
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed ...
