Les Vacances de M. Hulot

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Aka Mr Hulot's Holiday. Gentle, charming and very funny, Tati takes the theme of a yearly summer seaside holiday, and using the everyday peculiarities of character and place, produces a languorous, light-at-heart film that owes as much to dance as to slapstick. A genius at extrapolating the absurd from the everyday, Tati's use of sound effects was equally finely tuned.

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Interview with filmmaker Richard Lester; Original trailers for Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Mon Oncle and Playtime.

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Review by carol on 20th October 2001

Jaques Tati is an original, like no-one today, he struggles as if through treacle against machines and objects and situations with impeccable timing and always a good natured expression on his face. This English language version was created by the director and I remember laughing at it at the cinema as a child. The opening sequence at a railway station where over burdened holidaymakers are directed backwards and forwards through a tunnel from one platform to the next by a garbled announcement system still had me in tucks, as did the sequence at the cemetery where the punctured car tyre somehow manages to become a wreathh on the memorial or where Tati sets sail in a folding boat……Watch it and enjoy.

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Review by Patricia on 16th October 2000

Have just seen this film in our Village Hall as part of the Purbeck Film Festival. Great humour, slapstick, reminded me of my childhood when one had simple holidays without mass produced entertainment. Good belly laughs all around and it didn't matter at all that it was in black and white.....

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Article - "Jacques Tati: Democratic Comedy" by Graeme Hobbs
Saturday 30th October 2004

The four films Jacques Tati made from 1947 to 1967 are treasures of comic observation. There is the careering slapstick and rural charm of Jour de Fête in which the fair brings life and colour to town and François the postman attempts to speed up his round; th...  View article in full

Article - "Playtime and Tativille" by Graeme Hobbs
Wednesday 4th August 2004

Tativille, the name given to the enormous glass and concrete set of Playtime, is also a place of magical and delicate transformations; a patch of light on a floor is a glass of milk, a man locking a door is a horned beast, streetlights are lilies of the valley...  View article in full

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