Saturday, June 14, 2014

Movie review - "Jour de Fete" (The Big Day) (1949) **

Jacques Tati is supposed to be a genius and there were one or two funny moments in this but for the most part I found it very unfunny. The plot is about a rural French mailman who bludges most of the day - forever stopping to chat to people etc - then becomes worried about new fangled methods of transport making his job obsolete so goes all out to deliver his mail.

The good bits included a gag involving a cross eyed person trying to hammer a pike and some antics on the bike. For most of the part I found it too illogical, and not in a fun way but an annoying one. Uninteresting support cast, crappy colour, it dragged on and on.

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