''Gai dimanche!'' (''Fun Sunday!'') is a 1935 three reel film written by and starring

Jacques Tati Jacques Tati (; born Jacques Tatischeff, ; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, film-maker, actor and screenwriter. In an ''Entertainment Weekly'' poll of the Greatest Movie Directors, he was voted the 46th greatest of all time ...

and his friend Rhum. The pair star as down-and-outs who try to generate funds by providing an impromptu leisure tour in a rickety bus they wrangle use of for free. Released in 1935 and rarely seen today, the film offers brief glimpses and hints towards methods Tati would begin to perfect in his films more than a decade later. The short was included in

the Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video, home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films." Criterion serves film and media scho ...

's "The Complete Jacques Tati" box set, in a disc containing several short films that Tati either directed or starred in.

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* 1935 films French comedy short films Films directed by Jacques Tati French black-and-white films 1935 comedy films 1935 directorial debut films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub