Chichester Cinema at New Park
JOUR DE FÊTE
- Holiday
The 18th Chichester International Film festival
Director Retrospective: Jacques Tati (1907-1982)
Tati's first feature has been overshadowed by the marvellous films that followed it, (particularly M. Hulot's holiday) but this little masterpiece deserves to be seen. It is worth giving yourself time for the films little details to work their magic.
The droll story links a series of priceless set pieces that will have you crying with laughter. How can a drunken postman making his way home on a bicycle be so funny? This is visual humour that is both refined and brilliantly funny and there is something wonderfully uplifting and humane in the tone of the film.
As so often with Tati, the children seem much more socially adroit than the adults but all the characters are vivid and convincing. Tati beautifully captures a rural French postwar past that was fast disappearing even as he made the film. Much more than just funny – Hilarious! (Colour version)
France · 1949 · Jacques Tati · 87min
