À quoi s’attendre
Tati composes comedy across the whole frame and soundtrack, allowing doors, waves, furniture, engines, and distant conversations to share the joke. The 1978 rerelease is its own presentation history rather than a neutral stand-in for 1953.
Comment aborder le film
Plot is deliberately slight. Let your eyes roam beyond Hulot and listen for sounds whose source is elsewhere in the frame; a gag may begin before the apparent subject notices it.
À savoir
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Hulot rarely seems to own the joke he has started. I enjoy watching it travel through doors and tables until an entire hotel has joined a composition nobody meant to conduct.
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Générique et versions
- Distribution
- Jacques Tati — Monsieur Hulot · Nathalie Pascaud — Martine · Micheline Rolla — The aunt · Valentine Camax — Englishwoman
- Scénario
- Jacques Tati · Henri Marquet
- Production
- Fred Orain
- Photographie
- Jacques Mercanton · Jean Mousselle
Carte des versions
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