Mubi is showing Jacques Tati's Jour de fête (1949) and PlayTime (1967) in December 2018 and January 2019 in many countries around the world as part of the series A Holiday with M. Tati.The characters played by director Jacques Tati, in Jour de fête (1949), Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953), Mon oncle (1958), PlayTime (1967), Trafic (1971), and Parade (1974), are rarely the singular focus of their respective film. Sure, his endearing M. Hulot appears in four of these features, and his François, from Jour de fête, is the most prominent resident of that film’s snug provincial hamlet. But Tati’s on-screen persona, whatever his name (he has none in Parade), is often more of an escort, an inimitable figure whose primary function is to introduce surrounding characters by way of his direct and indirect interaction, and to establish the capacity of each film’s essential setting, which is usually enlivened by his mere existence if not his actual relevance.
- 12/18/2018
- MUBI
Lovers of hot-blooded French noir will love this 1958 B&W drama, which swaps violence for a dangerous sexual relationship between a cop and drug addict suspected of a murder. If this is a ‘lazy’ star vehicle for French superstar Jean Gabin, please bring us more — in his paunchy ‘fifties Monsieur Gabin takes on a beauty half his age, and convinces us that he can keep her.
Le désordre et la nuit
All-Region Blu-ray
Pathé (Fr)
1958 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date April 1 2017, 2017 /
available through Amazon.fr / Eur 14,99
Starring: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Paul Frankeur,
Hazel Scott, Robert Berri, François Chaumette, Louis Ducreux, Jacky Bamboo and his combo,
Harald Wolff, Roger Hanin.
Cinematography: Louis Page
Film Editor: Jacqueline Sadoul
Original Music: Jean Yatove
Written by Michel Audiard, Gilles Grangier, Jacques Robert from his novel
Produced by Lucien Viard
Directed by Gilles Grangier
Sometime in the 1990s Sherman Torgan...
Le désordre et la nuit
All-Region Blu-ray
Pathé (Fr)
1958 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date April 1 2017, 2017 /
available through Amazon.fr / Eur 14,99
Starring: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Paul Frankeur,
Hazel Scott, Robert Berri, François Chaumette, Louis Ducreux, Jacky Bamboo and his combo,
Harald Wolff, Roger Hanin.
Cinematography: Louis Page
Film Editor: Jacqueline Sadoul
Original Music: Jean Yatove
Written by Michel Audiard, Gilles Grangier, Jacques Robert from his novel
Produced by Lucien Viard
Directed by Gilles Grangier
Sometime in the 1990s Sherman Torgan...
- 6/6/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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