Jacques Tati restored films return to theaters – TVI24

The entire film from French director Jacques Tati will be displayed for the first time in Portugal, digitally restored version over the next few weeks, starting today, in Lisbon, and September 01 in Porto.

The cycle dedicated to Jacques Tati, “French master of comedy,” describes how the Movies Leopard will feature all six feature films he has done and also seven short films in an unprecedented exhibition in Portugal and that the filmmaker wrote or He played.

The retrospective begins today in Nimas Area in Lisbon – and September 01 at the Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto – with “Yes, Mr. Hulot” (1971) and comes after the cinematography of Jacques Tati was digital restoration target in 2013 and edition on Blu-ray.

Together with the cycle, the Nimas Space will host a poster exhibition of Jacques Tati’s feature films, reinterpreted by Portuguese illustrators André Letria, Marta Monteiro, Madalena Matoso, Sara-a-days, John Finance and Catarina Sobral.

In the cycle, and “Yes, Mr. Hulot” will still appear “There’s celebration in the village” (1949), “The Mr. Hulot’s Holiday” (1953), “My Uncle” ( 1958), “Playtime – Modern Life” (1967) and “Parade”, the last film, made in 1974 for Swedish television.

They are joined by the short films “Wanted thugs” (1934), Charles Barrois, “excited Sunday” (1935), Jacques Berr, “Take care of your left hook” ( 1936), René Cleement, “School postmen” (1946), Tati, “Evening Classes” (1967), of Nicoolas Ribowski, “Specialty of the House” (1976), Sophie Tatischeff (daughter, assembler and assistant Jacques Tati), and “Strength, bastia” (1978), made the socks between father and daughter.

Jacques Tati, who was Russian, French and Dutch descent, starred in all his films. If, in “There’s celebration in the village”, was distracted postman François, in feature films remaining (except “Parade”) assumes one of the best known characters, who, forever, if you stuck to the skin: the bewildering Mr. Hulot , hat, pipe and gabardine.

The first time that Jacques Tati was filmed as Mr. Hulot was in “The Mr. Hulot’s Holiday,” a film screened at Cannes and nominated for the Oscars. This was followed by the comedy “My uncle,” which earned him in 1959 the golden statuette in Hollywood for best foreign film.

After the grasslands, the summer time and family, Tati filmed modern life in a big city, Paris in “Playtime” – a cinema icon, but a ticket failure that led the director bankrupt – and “Yes, Mr. Hulot”, on an adventure on motorways in France and Belgium, toward a car show.

“Parade”, the film that was fired in the 1970s, Jacques Tati pays tribute to the world of entertainment and circus.

Jacques Tati died in 1982, victim of pneumonia, leaving unfinished the “Confusion” project.

In 2010, the director Sylvain Chomet shot the film animation “Magic,” from an argument biographical traits written by Jacques Tati, in the 1950s, with references to an illegitimate daughter of the filmmaker.

In Lisbon, September 16 is the date set for the completion of the retrospective; Porto, September 23.