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Jacques Tati

Jacques Tati


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Jacques Tati - what members say


  • Playtime
  • Playtime review by Munchkin061271 from Chadwell-St-Mary, Essex
    Rated - 4.0 stars Not so much a movie, more an experience! 30 October 2004
    ...I love comedy in all it's forms and had heard lots about Jacques Tati. This is the first of his films I have seen and it has filled me with admiration, but not hilarity...!...   Read customer review
  • Jour De Fete
  • Jour De Fete review by SILVERHARP from Edinburgh, Scotland.
    Rated - 4.0 stars SEDUCTIVE & BRILLIANT 22 February 2009
    ...From; SILVER HARP Edinburgh Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati 1949 France) Allow yourself to be seduced by one of the most exquisite, visual, comedies. Despite ...   Read customer review
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars 'Ow you say? Charmant 18 May 2005
    ...How many films stand the test of time (51 years) as well as this? Jacques Tati's French summer seaside town has lost none of its charm, intensified by crystal clear black a...   Read customer review

Jacques Tati - filmography


  • Playtime - Blu-ray (1985)
    Starring: Jacques Tati
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Jacques Tati's spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the gargantuan achievement of this film, PLAYTIME. Marking the third appearance of Tati's Mr. Magoo-like character, Mr. Hulot, PLAYTIME takes as its subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous and always hilarious effects on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 108 members
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  • Parade on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Jacques Tati,  Karl Kossmayer,  Pierre Bramma
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Jacque Tati's last film, PARADE, was shot on video for Swedish television and completed the same year the master filmmaker filed for bankruptcy. The semi-documentary presents a joyful look at the circus as well as the behind-the-scenes antics that go into its production. Tati's figurative roll as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 111 members
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  • Playtime on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Jacques Tati,  Barbara Dennek,  Sharon Maiden
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Jacques Tati's spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the gargantuan achievement of this film, PLAYTIME. Marking the third appearance of Tati's Mr. Magoo-like character, Mr. Hulot, PLAYTIME takes as its subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous and always hilarious effects on ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,002 members
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  • Tempo - Vol.1 (1963)
    Starring: Jacques Tati,  Henri Cartier-Bresson,  Tom Jones
    Director: none
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Through a decade in the 1960s and 1970s, TEMPO was ITV's seminal arts programme covering subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing and much more. This release contains interviews with Jacques Tati, Stan Tracey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Strasberg, Tom Jones, Orson Welles, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Mon Oncle on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Jacques Tati
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Unemployed Monsieur Hulot spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school and escort him to his ultra modern home. Concerned for Hulot's future, his sister tries to pair him with her neighbor while his brother-in-law tries to secure a job for him in his hose factory. Chaos ensues. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,796 members
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  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Jacques Tati
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Jacques Tati, master of his own idiosyncratic genre of cinematic slapstick, followed up his acclaimed debut JOUR DE F-TE with the equally ingenious MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY. Five years in the making, the film marks the debut of Tati's altar ego, Mr. Hulot, a gangly and awkward Frenchman, perpetually the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,531 members
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  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - Blu-ray (1949)
    Starring: Jacques Tati
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Jacques Tati, master of his own idiosyncratic genre of cinematic slapstick, followed up his acclaimed debut JOUR DE F-TE with the equally ingenious MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY. Five years in the making, the film marks the debut of Tati's altar ego, Mr. Hulot, a gangly and awkward Frenchman, perpetually the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 133 members
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  • Jour De Fete on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Jacques Tati,  Guy Decomble,  Paul Frankeur
    Director: Jacques Tati
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In Jacques Tati's charming -- and essentially 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. Things ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,284 members
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Jacques Tati facts

5 most recent films

Playtime - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Parade - 3.0 stars
Playtime - 3.0 stars
Tempo - Vol.1 - 3 stars
Mon Oncle - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Mon Oncle - 3.5 stars
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - 3.5 stars
Jour De Fete - 3.5 stars
Playtime - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tempo - Vol.1 - 3 stars
Parade - 3.0 stars
Playtime - 3.0 stars
Playtime - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Jour De Fete - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jan Swahn - 2 times - show films
Pierre Bramma - 2 times - show films
Guy Decomble - 2 times - show films
Bertil Berglund - 2 times - show films
Michèle Brabo - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 1 times - show films