Tati’s debut feature is set on fête day in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, a gentle rural community where the first whiffs of modernity are wafting in on post-war winds. The village postman François (Tati) does his round by bicycle, stopping to help pitch some hay here or erect a flagpole there, his routine timed to the pace of a leisurely bucolic life.
But the hints of American jazz on the soundtrack suggest this is a fragile, antiquated idyll, and when François stops by the fête’s cinema tent and sees a demonstration film of the speedy efficiency of the US postal service, the postman decides it’s time to up his own game and commits to doing his round at the rate of knots – with hilariously catastrophic results.
Poster art by Michel Landi (born 1932). Landi, born in Fontainebleau, is a French poster designer and artist. He created nearly 1,500 movie posters and is, with René Ferracci, Boris Grinsson, Clément Hurel and Jean Mascii, one of the most prolific creators of movie posters in France in the second half of the 20th century.
The poster is in fine folded condition. Although printed in France the poster was intended to be used when the movie was shown in German speaking countries