Parade (1974)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
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May 12, 1974 Wide
Jan 31, 1991
The Criterion Collection
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Jacques Tati's last film -- his least-known work, shot mostly on videotape for Swedish television -- is seldom shown, but it's a far greater achievement than most accounts would lead you to expect.
Jacques Tati's Parade is such a slight and simple film that its subject almost seems to be self-effacing.
It can't aspire to the meticulous mise en scène of his big screen work; and one feels saddened that this great director should have found no other outlet for his genius.
Top CriticMore familiar and repetitive than inventive, Tati's last film doesn't begin to compare to his previous masterpieces.
Like in all his films, Tati's good-nature comes through.
A distillation not of Jacques Tati per se, but of communal spectacle, creativity and creation, simply -- hence, cinema.
Tati's final film -- made originally for Swedish television -- and it's not up to much.
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The film is overall an ongoing event (Hence, hence, hence) where you go behind the circus show back and forth between the show itself. The small funny details from the random performers hold the film together. In the end there's this singer (I forgot her name) who sounds exactly like Edith Piaf. There isn't enough information about the film's soundtrack online so I don't know if it was just a Piaf song played with the woman lip syncing.