On demande une brute. Charles Barrois, 1934.
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Edition screened: Included on Tati Shorts disc in Criterion’s 7-Blu-ray set The Complete Jacques Tati, released 2014. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 25 minutes, but seeming much longer.
Summary: Killing of a goldfish for boring comedic effect.
A tedious scene in a boring film, the fish bowl and the soup tureen both are in the middle of the dining room table. The goldfish is unknowingly ladled out, unknowingly sloshed around and handled, unknowingly tossed in a sardine can, unknowingly thrown back onto a plate (by which time it has died), then unknowingly eaten with accompanying goofy faces. Just hilarious. God, that witty, understated French comedy just slays me.