Jour de Fête (1949)

Original title

Jour de fête

Directed by

Jacques Tati

Genre

slapstick

Country

France

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

U

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 247 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bumbling mailman in a small French village tries to do his job while getting easily sidetracked. The film follows his comic struggles as modern postal methods cause chaos in the old-fashioned town.

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What happens

Jour de fête (The Big Day) is a 1949 French comedy film starring Jacques Tati in his feature film directorial debut as an inept and easily distracted mailman in a backward French village. Shot largely in and around Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, where Tati had lived during the Occupation, most of the actors were unknown and villagers served as extras. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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