Jour de fete . Newcity Chicago . 01-20-98

Jour de fete

DIRECTED BY: Jacques Tati

REVIEWED: 01-20-98

A sort-of-lost film rediscovered. Jacques Tati's 1947 feature, released for the first time in color, boasts an early version of Tati's Hulot character -- also a ringer for Charles DeGaulle here -- as a bicycle postman weaving in and out of Sainte-Sever, a French village awaiting the arrival of a fair. Tati's patience with a gag is as rewarding as in his later, better-known work like "Mon Oncle" and "Playtime." Tati shot "Jour de Fete" in an early color process, but was never able to make any prints, much to his disappointent, as he'd designed the village to bloom with color when the fair arrived. 79m.

--Ray Pride

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