Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
Dir: Jacques Tati
France, 1953, 88 minmins, DCP
Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla
None shall sleep at the seaside resort Hôtel de la Plage, with vacationers forever awakened from their sleep by the antics of Mr. Hulot, the lovable, lanky, pipe-smoking character played by Tati for the first time in this classic French comedy. Tati finds inspiration for his humor through the loving observation of character types and situations that stem uniquely from daily life, while he perfects his art of staging in depth an array of visual gags that work hand in hand with a carefully designed soundtrack tickling viewers through the funny, abstract use of everyday, ambient sounds.
Prix Louis Delluc
Cannes Film Festival: In Competition
TASCHEN will offer three newly released “Jacques Tati. The Complete Works” box sets (worth HK$2,000) in three selected Cine Fan screenings of “The Logic of Illusion: Jacques Tati” to lovers of Jacques Tati. The more screenings you watch, the higher the chance!
Remarks
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