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1974 (DVD: 22/6/09)

Colour

France

Language(s): French

Subtitles: English

Published/distributed by BFI

ISBN/EAN: 5035673008089

Ratio 1.33:1

Region 2

Price: £19.99
(Including VAT at 20%)

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Parade

Tati, Jacques

*Now available for the first time on DVD in the UK*

Jacques Tati's last - and least known - film, Parade, sees his return to the boisterous music hall world in which he began his career as a mime artist in the 1930s. Ostensibly nothing more than a series of circus acts hosted by Tati and preformed for a family audience, Parade is in fact a brilliantly conceived spectacle which blurs all distinctions between performers and audience, accomplished acrobats and children at play. Offering gloriously funny visual gags that flow beautifully from one act to another - including several of his most famous pantomimes - Parade is the perfect stage for Tati's comic genius.

'It's a sign of this films greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.' Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Extras
* Rare interview with Tati, filmed in London 1977 (20 minutes)
* Illustrated booklet with essays by Philip Kemp and Jonathan Rosenbaum, biography and credits.

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