🎥 Movies of 2021, 32: Jour de fête. Tati’s gag writing and physical prowress are on full display here, as his his disdain for modernism in general and American Modernism in particular. But it’s way talkier than his later films, and a bit meaner.
I also watched his short School for Postmen which is like the Classics Illustrated version of Jour de fête. A fifteen minute short with many of the same jokes, and in some cases the exact film that was resused in the later feature film. If you want some Tati and only have 15 minutes, you’re set.
