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DVD ~ Jacques Tati
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  • Actors: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
  • Directors: Jacques Tati
  • Format: Full Screen, Colour
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Nov 2004
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006687T4
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,044 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The story of a village's Bastille Day celebrations and a postman's determined efforts to get the mail through. A delightful look at the modern obsession with speed and efficiency. French dialogue with subtitles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless, gentle and very funny, 20 Feb 2005
Tati's first feature has been overshadowed by the marvellous films that followed it, (particularly "M. Hulot's holiday") but this little masterpiece deserves to be seen. The pace is slow and the action mostly lugubrious but it is worth giving yourself time for the little details to work their magic. The droll story links a series of priceless set pieces that had me crying with laughter. How can a drunken postman making his way home on a bicycle be so funny? This is visual humour that is both refined and brilliantly funny and there is something wonderfully uplifting and humane in the tone of the film. As so often with Tati, the children seem much more socially adroit than the adults but all the characters are vivid and convincing. Tati beautifully captures a rural French postwar past that was fast disappearing even as he made the film. Hilarious, but much more than just funny.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best..., 14 Feb 2005
By Yovra (Driebergen, Holland) - See all my reviews
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Compared to the brilliant Les Vacances de M. Hulot this film is somewhat uneven; the film occasionally slows down to almost a complete stop. The story is told in a few lines: fuelled by a spectacular movie about mail-distribution in America he's seen on a travelling fair, the postman (Tati) decides to modernize his way of delivering his cards and letters.
The gags are classic slapstick (think Chaplin and Keaton). The colour-version only heightens the rural, easy-going atmosphere.
If you want to go on holiday to the French provence for just about 90 minutes; this is the way!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good debut by Tati, 22 Aug 2008
By Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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Tati's first feature film (he has made some shorts before) from 1949 is about an inept bicycle riding postman (Tati himself, of course) trying to adopt more efficient ways of delivering mail in a quaint French rural village, after watching a documentary of the American postal system. One must say first that the gags here are not as good or as funny as in Tati's later films (especially Mr. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle). Still, this is worth seeing, especially in its color version (Tati was disappointed with its primitive color system, so he finally decided to release the film on black and white; the color version of the film was restored and released to the public many years later, after Tati's death). What is more striking of the movie when one sees it now is to look, even in a color that leaves much to be desired, at a rural France that no longer exists.
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3.0 out of 5 stars jacquea tati
Jacques Tati's first outing although filmed in black & white film stock, a second colour camera was used as well, this in 1949. The result excellent. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Miska1717

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite a good as the others...but enjoyable
I have the other more popular Jacques Tati films, so thought I'd buy this to add to the collection.
I must admit, I watched it amongst chaos, with kids running in and out,... Read more
Published 26 days ago by Just My Opinion!

4.0 out of 5 stars Postman Jacques
Jacques Tati plays Francois, the village postman, stung into an effort to bring the postal service into the 2oth century and speed up his delivery methods. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Budge Burgess

5.0 out of 5 stars Jour de fete
Wonderful... the gentle humour of clever observation, and delightful snapshot of rural France in a different era is a lovely way to pass an hour or so.
Published 3 months ago by Wolfwoman

5.0 out of 5 stars Jour De Fete
This film take's you back to an age gone by that will never return, its so funny and innocent its a pleasure to watch I would recommend it for family viewing.
Published 4 months ago by Mrs. M. A. Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars Francois rides again
Jacques Tati shows that his is the master of the Chaplinesque genre with another highly skilled portrayal of a rural French postman when the travelling fair arrives in the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. WA Bowman

2.0 out of 5 stars An unfortunate experience
Having seen a couple of Jacques Tati films as a child and been delighted, it was with eager anticipation that I put this DVD into the machine.
What a travesty! Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2006 by R. G. Smith

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