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Writers:
Jacques Tati (writer) and
Henri Marquet (writer) ...
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Release Date:
4 May 1949 (France) more
Plot:
Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabiters are scoffing at Francois... more | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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(From The AV Club. 15 July 2008, 9:02 PM, PDT)
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How lively! more (24 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Guy Decomble | ... | Roger | |
| Jacques Tati | ... | François, the postman | |
| Paul Frankeur | ... | Marcel | |
| Santa Relli | ... | Roger's wife | |
| Maine Vallée | ... | Jeannette | |
| Delcassan | ... | The tattler | |
| Roger Rafal | ... | The hair-dresser | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Robert Balpo | |||
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Holiday
The Big Day
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Runtime:
70 min | Argentina:80 min (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) | Germany:79 min | Finland:86 min (1960) | 79 min (restored version)
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Black and White (original release) | Color (Thomsoncolor) (alternate version, first released after restoration in 1995)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Portugal:M/6 | Australia:G | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | Germany:6 (nf) (w) | UK:U
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The movie 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. In 1995 the color copy was restored and published by Tati's daughter Sophie Tatischeff, and cinematographer François Ede. more
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Remake of L'école des facteurs (1947) more
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At a small village fair, the postman François is watching a documentary movie on American postmen: they use helicopters, airplanes and parachutes to deliver mail, for a rapidity question. Rapidity, haste: that's what's in François's mind now. He wants to deliver mail as faster as he can into the small communities he crosses everyday
This film has surely got an easy-going atmosphere; the gags succeed and are never totally alike. The mosquito each time comes back when you don't expect it. François riding his bike always finds something different to get you laughing! If you are French, then you'll understand villagers' peasant accent, and you won't miss to giggle! Some gags may remember you Charles Chaplin's ones, except that Jacques Tati used speech and colors, but dialogs almost escape notice, and colors aren't shocking.
I recommend this one to Chaplin's fans and other film-lovers.