| Genre: | Comedy |
| Year: | 1947 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Cast: | Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Gur Decomble, Santa Relli, and the inhabitants of Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre |
| Credits: | Director Jacques Tati |
Jacques Tati's first film is an hilarious saga of a blundering postman in a sleepy French village. When the traveling fair arrives in town, our postman eagerly lends assistance, which results in carnival mayhem. While not quite as well known here in the US as his colleagues Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati's comic masterworks are acknowledged by his peers and film historians to be vital works of modern cinema. Originally shot in color and black & white, Tati's JOUR DE FETE was never successfully printed in color in the forties. Over the decades, the director and his colleagues have struggled with the color process and now, 15 years after Tati's death, there is a fully restored color JOUR DE FETE, which premiered in France in 1995 as opening night of the commemorative operation One Hundred Years of Cinema. Finally available for select engagements in the US, don't miss the Boston-area premiere run.
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