Cours du soir (1967)

Directed by

Nicolas Ribowski

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

30 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jacques Tati teaches a mime class to eager students. He performs classic skits about a tennis player and a horse rider.

lightheartedplayfulnostalgicbreezygentleamusingobservational

What happens

Cours du Soir (Evening Classes) is a thirty-minute short film in which Jacques Tati demonstrates the art of mime to a group of enthusiastic students. Amongst skits performed are those of a tennis player and a horse rider – sketches that initially brought Tati acclaim on music hall stages in the 1930s. Nicolas Ribowski directed the short on the set of Playtime in 1966. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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