Jour de fête

Jour de fete

Sat 23 Jun at 1.00pm
Jacques Tati • France 1948 • 1h20m • DVD • French with English
subtitles • U
Cast: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli.

A joyful, almost silent comedy set in the French countryside. François (Jacques Tati), a village postman, does his rounds on his bicycle – the old-fashioned way. But when a travelling carnival comes to town, its proprietors show a film extolling the virtues of modern American mail delivery, and soon the townspeople start to wonder if François has fallen behind the times…

6 responses

16 05 2007
Another Mixed Big «

[...] from local filmmaker Chas Nairn, the drama Beijing Bicycle, a Canadian Critical Mass movie, a Jacques Tati comedy, and also the winners of the Wheel to Reel 2007 [...]

16 05 2007
Bicycle Film Festival Programme Announced « cycling edinburgh .info

[...] from local filmmaker Chas Nairn, the drama Beijing Bicycle, a Canadian Critical Mass movie, a Jacques Tati comedy, and also the winners of the Wheel to Reel 2007 [...]

16 05 2007
Edinburgh Bike Week Film Festival - Details Announced « bike week edinburgh 2007

[...] from local filmmaker Chas Nairn, the drama Beijing Bicycle, a Canadian Critical Mass movie, a Jacques Tati comedy, and also the winners of the Wheel to Reel 2007 [...]

27 05 2007
BFF does it again «

[...] upcoming EBWFF will show Jacques Tati’s Jour de fête. This started filming exactly 60 years ago and so changed the “remote village of [...]

22 06 2007
Events for Saturday « bike week edinburgh 2007

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23 06 2007
60 Years Young «

[...] Years Young 23 06 2007 Today’s film by Jacques Tati brought in an audience that included the youngest people so far seen at a Bicycle [...]

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