The Movies of Jacques Tati

Originally a mime, in the late 1930s Tati recorded some of his early supporting cameos on film with some success and thus began his career as a filmmaker. His films have little audible dialogue, but instead are built around elaborate, tightly-choreographed visual gags and carefully integrated sound effects. In all but his very last film, Tati plays the lead character, who - with the exception of his first and last films - is the gauche and socially inept Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. There exist several recurrent themes in Tati’s comedic work, most notably in Mon Oncle, Playtime, and Trafic . These include Western society’s obsession with material goods, particularly American-style consumerism, the pressure cooker environment of modern society, the superficiality of relationships among France’s various social classes, and the cold and often impractical nature of space-age technology and design.

Jour de Fête (1949)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040497/

http://rapidshare.com/files/81158178/Jour_de_F_te.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81164861/Jour_de_F_te.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81170034/Jour_de_F_te.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81177474/Jour_de_F_te.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81209142/Jour_de_F_te.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81216178/Jour_de_F_te.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81223582/Jour_de_F_te.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81225880/Jour_de_F_te.part8.rar

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046487/

http://rapidshare.com/files/79742942/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79742978/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79980013/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79987197/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80045467/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80167746/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80176216/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80182267/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80186155/Les_Vacances_de_Mr_Hulot.part09.rar

Mon Oncle (1958)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050706/

http://rapidshare.com/files/80259800/Mon_Oncle.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80263832/Mon_Oncle.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80267860/Mon_Oncle.part03.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/80278197/Mon_Oncle.part05.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/80668148/Mon_Oncle.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80282672/Mon_Oncle.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80287417/Mon_Oncle.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80679271/Mon_Oncle.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80687928/Mon_Oncle.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80689889/Mon_Oncle.part12.rar

Play Time (1967)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136/

http://rapidshare.com/files/80885136/Playtime.part01.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/81136446/Playtime.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81140240/Playtime.part12.rar

Hi-res scan of the cover
http://rapidshare.com/files/81418715/Play_Time_DVD.jpg

Trafic (1971)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069400/

http://rapidshare.com/files/81271737/Trafic.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81286239/Trafic.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/81411364/Trafic.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81416795/Trafic.part7.rar
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