WATCH PARTY: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) Jacques Tati @ Mary Pretlow Library
Details
We'll be in the 2nd floor conference room, to the left as you get off the stairs/elevator. I'm told it would be good to watch this first before taking on Tati's Playtime later in the month.
RUNTIME: 114 minutes
RATED: PG
SYNOPSIS (via Criterion): 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.
BLURBS:
"Exquisitely funny masterpiece with one of the greatest physical comedians of all time." - Nell Minow, Movie Mom
"Tati is heir to the great comics of the silent era, Chaplin and Keaton and Lloyd." - Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
"There are some real laughs in it, but Mr. Hulot's Holiday gives us something rarer, an amused affection for human nature -- so odd, so valuable, so particular." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times