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Jour de Fête

Jour de Fête

1949, Movie, 1h 26min

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.

Country: France

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7.5

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

Tati's (...) performance as the ungainly, but dauntlessly bouyant postman is a masterclass in silent pantomime.

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Critic Jacob Ludvigsen

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7

...er i sin muntre opfindsomhed af klart mere end filmhistorisk interesse...

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