Title: Jour De Fete
Original Title: Jour de fête
Year: 1949
Info
- Country: France
- Length: 70 Minutes (1 hour 10 min)
- Genre: Comedy
Release Dates
- United States: February 19 1952
Plot
Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre is a small town in France. Neighbors are very excited and nervous because they are preparing the Bastille Day festivities and they want everything to be perfect. Stallholders arrive in the town and begins to put on their stands. One of these stallholders brings to the fair a film projector and projects a documentary that deals with the techniques used by postmen in the United States. When Francois, the postman in Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre, watches the documentary, he decides to apply the techniques in the town.
'Jour De Fete' is directed by famous director Jacques Tati ('Les Vacances de M. Hulot', 'Mon Oncle'). Also, Tati is the protagonist of 'Jour De Fete'. Guy Decomble and Paul Frankeur are in the cast as well.
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Trivia
Many of the gags in this movie were previously used nearly identically in 'L'école des facteurs'.
After two short films, this was the first feature length film directed by Jacques Tati.
''Jour De Fete'' was originally filmed in Thomson-color, a process that became extinct before prints of the film could be shown and was previously only available in a black and white version that was filmed as a precaution, in case the color process was not perfect.
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