Parade

Name: Parade
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1962-09-17
Rating: 7

Documentary11m

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64%

Tomatometer

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45%

Popcornmeter

7.0

TMDB

Storyline

Filmed in Belgrade in 1962, Parade documents the city’s engagement with the annual May Day celebration by largely ignoring the formal procession. Instead, Dušan Makavejev records the informal moments surrounding it: workers, officials, wanderers, and organizers negotiating space, hierarchy, and appearance. Shot with a detached, humorous eye, the film assembles a mosaic of everyday behavior that reveals the contrast between official ceremony and lived social reality.

Details

DirectorDušan Makavejev

ReleasedSep 17, 1962

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

5 fresh · 1 rotten

Noel Murray

RTThe DissolveNov 3, 2014

The more modest 1971 comedy Trafic and the 1974 made-for-Swedish-TV movie Parade are both sweet and entertaining, with moments of pure Tati magic.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

RTChicago ReaderNov 14, 2007

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

RTChicago Sun-TimesNov 14, 2007

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

Jayne Nelson

RTRadio TimesMay 23, 2025

This is all a tad ramshackle, but it has a good-natured charm and some solid laughs.