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Adventures of Captain Fabian
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Mr. Hulot's Holiday
:Description:Jacques Tati introduces his wonderful character Mr. Hulot in this wildly funny satire of middle-class vacationers on a summer holiday. Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another. Considered by many to be Tati's funniest film, Mr. Hulot's Holiday pays homage to the great classic silent comedies with a hilarious blend of colorful characters, sparse dialogue, impeccably timed sight gags, and an innovative sound track. essential video:Forefather of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot--a recurring ...
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Mr. Hulot's Holiday
: essential video:Forefather of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot--a recurring character in several of his movies--is a blithely clumsy troublemaker, an insouciant twit who leaves uproar in his wake without being aware of it. Trying to describe this 1953 comedy is next to impossible except to say it is a series of vignettes at a vacation resort, with the distracted Hulot providing a lot of laughs. Tati directs, and in a way what that really means is that he composes this movie with a perfect eye and ear ...
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