Jacques Cottin
Costume & make-up · 1922 – 2002 · Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Jacques Cottin was a French costume designer whose films included Jour de fête (1949), Mon oncle (1958), and Playtime (1967), for Jacques Tati. In 1970 he had a cameo in François Truffaut's Bed and Board, playing the character of Monsieur Hulot, made famous by Tati. Source: Article "Jacques Cottin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Movie7.1ComedyDramaParisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Movie7.0ComedyMonsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.
Movie7.1CrimeRomanceA detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Movie7.1ComedyJour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of mail while aboard his bicycle.
Jour de fête
1949 · 253 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaIn a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.