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Saturday, Nov 2, 2019
3:30 PM (87 mins)
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Jour de fête
(Holiday), (The Big Day)
Original B&W Version
Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli,
This loose series of village vignettes follows the misadventures of a postman (Tati) who, inspired by a hyperbolic newsreel at a traveling fair, attempts to emulate the spectacular speed and efficiency of the American postal service—on his bicycle. The fair’s boisterous energy, in contrast to the lull of village routine, is brilliantly evoked by the controlled cacophony of the soundtrack. The film was shot with two cameras, one loaded with black-and-white film and the other using a stock called Thomsoncolor, a technology so experimental that printing proved impractical; we present the black-and-white release version.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Jacques Tati
- Henri Marquet
Cinematographer
- Jacques Sauvageot
- Jacques Mercanton
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 87 mins
Source
- Janus Films
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Jacques Tati (program note), Institut Valencià de l'Audiovisual i de Cinematografia Ricardo Muñoz Suay, Román Gubern, 2009
The color of paradise (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1998
Jour de fête (program note), San Francisco International Film Festival, Lisa Nesselson, 1997
On the road again (review), Village Voice, Michael Atkinson, 1997
Jour de fete (review), Variety, Lisa Nesselson, 1994
A Jacques Tati program (program note), New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.), William K. Everson, 1979
Jour de fete (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, 1972
Jour de fete (program note), Cine Club Scrapbook, H.E.W., 1953
The big day (exhibitor manual), Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley Inc., 1952
Jacques Tati (distributor materials), Films Distribution
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