Jour de Fête
- Jacques Tati Francois, the postman
- Guy Decomble: Roger
- Paul Frankeur: Marcel
- Santa Relli: Rogers Wife
- Maine Vallee: Jeannette
Tatis Marksmen ( original title Jour de fête ) is a feature film by French director Jacques Tati, filmed from May to November 1947.
Action
At the beginning of the film more than one person try on the village square set up a flagpole, what they fail. During the consequent If this wood mast François the postman comes (played by Jacques Tati ) drove his bike through an archway onto the pitch and can escape the mast falling only by responsive turning into the receptacle located on the square restaurant. He then organized the installation and gives the people the commands, and it also manages to move a strong squinting employees by offering two pegs and interpretation to the one for turning the other.
While this popular festival, there are also a traveling cinema in a tent in the fictional village of Folainville (shot in Sainte Sévère sur Indre ). The postman François is the laughingstock of the villagers, as a film about the modern methods of mail delivery in the U.S. is shown in the cinema tent. After a night in the guest house where the drunken mailman is constantly brought up by the guests because of his slow method of service, he decides to show it to people. From now on, his motto is " Rapidité - speed ". This acceleration of his work brings some unintended drawbacks and finally ends in a fiasco. So chop the meat, because to him during the backswing, the packet is immediately thrown through the window on the table, the tips of the therein shoes off and the telegram to an old lady is eaten by a goat, except for the signature. His rationalization efforts cause he with his Post bike once overtaken a group of racing cyclists and the letters while driving on the horizontal fold-down flap of a small truck will stamp, under his bike handlebars fits exactly. He also confused a patrol of the military police by seeming calls on the wheel with a recessed phone such that it passes over them in the ditch. Progress and of such rationalization but have in the rural idyll not last because it remain personal relationships on the track.
Background
Already in this film shows Tati the tension between " good old days " and the achievements of modernity, which he satirized 1967 wonderful in the film Tati times (Play Time).
Tati's film was the first French color film ( " Thomson Color" ) and was shot in a rather complicated three - color process: For each color (red, yellow and blue), a separate film was used. When projecting these films had to be projected with three film projectors to each other, because a technique for combining the three colors was not available on a film strip. Tati had in the color process his doubts about the technology and let the movie as a precaution also rotate with a separate camera in black and white. Since hardly a cinema could perform the color process, the film was listed only in the black and white copy. Only in 1995 came to, among other things, co-financed by ZDF version of the summarized on a film color version of the performance. Previously, there was a curiosity and a partially colored by Tati 1964 black and white version, in which various objects were colored artificially, for example, the French flag or balloons. Tati knew this version also with a nachgedrehten frame story, in which a young artist visited the village, explains what is happening and with his brush performs the Nachkolorierung.
The German translation of the movie title is misleading. A shooting festival ( festival of members of a shooting club ) is in this sense, not in the movie.
Reviews
" Tati has created this infinitely loving chronicle full of witty observations, a tender masterpiece. "
"In ' Tati' Marksmen ' celebrates Tati, who plays the postman François, the French village community - with critical sympathy with without getting into idyllic waters passion, love, but. Even here shows Tatis distance to the city, to modern technologies to vertebrate orders to supposedly predictable processes. "
" [ ... ] A comedy full of poetic imagination, a successful reinterpretation of the burlesque -style Mack Sennett or Buster Keaton [ ... ] "
Awards
Soundtrack
- Jean Yatove: Jour de Fete. Extraits de la Bande Originale du Film. In: Extraits the original tape of the film de Jacques Tati. Philips / Polygram s.l.s.n. Media no. 836983-2 - Excerpts (Suite ) from the original recording of the film music, recorded under the composer's direction