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Jour de Fête

Jour de fête (original)

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 increasing reliance on technology) that would define his cinema.

Spoken language: fr
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 (silen... Read more

Watch "Jour de Fête" from streaming services Criterion Channel, Kanopy, Amazon released in 1949. It's a comedy movie, and has a rating of 7.2 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.

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