Parade (1974)

Critic Reviews

• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

  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.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  Jacques Tati's Parade is such a slight and simple film that its subject almost seems to be self-effacing.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  Like in all his films, Tati's good-nature comes through.

• Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

  A distillation not of Jacques Tati per se, but of communal spectacle, creativity and creation, simply -- hence, cinema.

• , Time Out

  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.

• , Film4

  Tati's final film -- made originally for Swedish television -- and it's not up to much.

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