Cours du soir
1967 Comedy
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Summary
Jacques Tati gives a lesson in the art of comedy to a class of would-be actors.
Having explained the importance of observation (which he illustrates with reference to
tennis players and jockeys), he shows his eager students the correct way to trip up a
flight of stairs.
Review
Whilst not the most significant of Jacques Tati’s contributions to cinema, Cours du
soir offers some insight into the master’s very individual comic technique.
Tati’s mimes, of different species of smoker and angler, provide the most entertaining
part of the film, although you do get the impression that here is a gifted magician who
is perhaps revealing too much of his art. It is appropriate that Tati should make
this film towards the end of his career (ironically on the set of Playtime, the
film which would ruin him). It offers a suitably witty post-script to a distinguished
(albeit cruelly frustrated) film-making career.
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