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WFDD Movie Club: Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

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  • Sat, Aug 22

Director: Jacques Tati Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 1953 Language: French

Starring: Jacques Tati, Louis Perrault, Micheline Rolla, Nathalie Pascaud, Valentine Camax

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Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

“When has a film so subtly and yet so completely captured nostalgia for past happiness? The movie is about the simplest of human pleasures: The desire to get away for a few days, to play instead of work, to breathe in the sea air, and maybe meet someone nice. It is about the hope that underlies all vacations, and the sadness that ends them. And it is amused, too, that we go about our days so intently, while the sea and the sky go about theirs.” ~ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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