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French Film Festival · 2009

French Film Festival 2009

Totally Tati

Retrospective dedicated to the French master of comedy film - featuring almost all of his works. There will also be a showcase of his short films: Watch Your Left, School For Postmen and Evening Classes.

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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Jour De Fête (The Big Day, The Holiday)

Review preview for Jour De Fête

The film is at its best when Tati is on his own with a simple prop like the bike, when his distinctive personality comes to the fore.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Tati's debut about a postman who sees a newsreel about the US mail system and decides to upgrade his deliveries, with comic consequences.

(Country: France; Year: 1949; Director: Jacques Tati; Writer: Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, René Wheeler; Stars: Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli, Maine Vallée, Delcassan, Roger Rafal, Robert Balpo, Jacques Beauvais, Alexandre Wirtz)

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THE MAGNIFICENT TATI

Documentary tracing Tati's rise and fall in the world of cinema.

(Director: Michael House)

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot)

First appearance for the eponymous Hulot, whose seaside holiday turns into a comedic catastrophe.

(Country: France; Year: 1953; Director: Jacques Tati; Writer: Pierre Aubert, Jacques Lagrange, Henri Marquet, Jacques Tati; Stars: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax, Louis Perrault, André Dubois, Lucien Frégis, Raymond Carl, René Lacourt, Marguerite Gérard, Georges Adlin, Michèle Brabo, Édouard Francomme, Christopher Lee, Suzy Willy)

Mon oncle (My Uncle, Mr Hulot)

Oscar-winning comedy, sees Monsieur Hulot visit his sister's sterile household, bringing chaos in his wake.

(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1958; Director: Jacques Tati; Writer: Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hôte, Jacques Tati; Stars: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial, Dominique Marie, Yvonne Arnaud, Adelaide Danieli, Alain Bécourt, Régis Fontenay, Claude Badolle, Max Martel, Nicolas Bataille, Daki)

Playtime (Play Time)

Review preview for Playtime

There are moments of brilliance but also points where Tati simply lays on everything too thick.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Monsieur Hulot becomes caught up in an American tourist invasion of Paris.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1967; Director: Jacques Tati; Writer: Art Buchwald, Jacques Lagrange, Jacques Tati; Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly, France Delahalle, Valérie Camille, Erika Dentzler, Nicole Ray, Yvette Ducreux, Nathalie Jem)

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Trafic (Traffic)

Monsieur Hulot heads out in a gadget-filled camper car to attend the Amsterdam Motor Show causing a string of comic calamities.

(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1971; Director: Jacques Tati; Writer: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Bert Haanstra; Stars: Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel, François Maisongrosse, Tony Knepper, Franco Ressel, Mario Zanuelli, Maria Kimberly)