Jour de fête

France: Cady Films, 1949. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1949 film, showing director Jacques Tati talking with a live goat and an unidentified cast member. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.

In his charming and beautifully plotless pre-Hulot first feature, Tati is Francois, a contented and happy postman in a small, unhurried French village. Francois is at ease with his job and leisurely performs his duties, peddling away on his rounds upon his beloved bicycle. A carnival comes to town, and one of the attractions is a film depicting the United States Postal Service's fast and efficient postal delivery system. The narrator in the film exhorts, "Rapidite, rapidite." Francois takes up the call, and attempts to Americanize his work style.

7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.

BFI 603. Criterion Collection 730. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.

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