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Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)

Comedy | 114 minutes (Franstalige versie) / 83 minutes (Engelstalige versie)
3,23 349 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 114 minuten (Franstalige versie) / 83 minuten (Engelstalige versie)

Alternative titles: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday / Meneer Hulot Gaat met Vakantie

Country: France

Directed by: Jacques Tati

Stars: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud and Louis Perrault

IMDb score: 7,3 (21.713)

Releasedate: 25 February 1953

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Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot plot

"It's laugh-vacation time!"

First part of Tati's Monsieur-Hulot series. Monsieur Hulot goes on holiday to a hotel on the coast, but accidents and misunderstandings leave the other hotel guests little rest.

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Tha Flow

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Playtime and Mon Oncle were of course great, but this one is also memorable. I can still remember a whole lot of hilarious moments. The door that makes such an annoying noise every time, the old couple who are constantly pissing each other off, and of course Monsieur Hulot! And all brought calmly and on time with a relection that makes you melancholy. Added to this is the nostalgic black and white, the music and the wafer-thin nonsense story. A really lovely movie.

4 stars

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Roger Thornhill

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Whether this is "the best" or even my own favorite Tati I don't know, but it is his most perfect film, with its small universe full of keenly observed characters, fully exploited comedic possibilities, beautiful photography and countless little jokes. Underneath flows a friendly melancholy, "the hope that underlies all vacations and the sadness that ends them" as Roger Ebert puts it, set against the romance of the sun, the sea and the warmth – this is a film that needs no color to to suggest sunshine. I've seen some jokes a dozen times (the unintelligible voice of the station announcer, the suitcase that looks like an extra step, the card player who, thanks to Hulot, throws his card on another table with all the altercations that entails, the sound of the door spring, the lady with the parasol who finds beautiful shells and her husband who keeps them for her –eh–, the effect of the jack under the car, and –my personal favorite– Hulot being launched by the taut tow rope[/spoiler ]), but it still makes me laugh.
The only downside: After reviewing this movie I went for a run, and the last eight kilometers I walked in the pouring rain, not pleasant when your head is still full of Hulot. I only imagined that I was walking on the beach of St-Marc-sur-Mer.

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thunderball

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Set this up again a week or so ago.

Was once the first Tati film I saw and turned out to be the perfect film to watch in Belgian French, if you don't really master the French language, because what is said in it didn't matter at all.

First film with the character Monsieur Hulot and this is perhaps the best, because although the following films are of course much nicer shot and therefore visually more impressive, this older black-and-white film certainly has an edge for me in terms of visual jokes.

There is always something happening in the picture and I think this is the film that scores best of all Tati films in terms of joke density, although I have to admit that I haven't watched all his short films by a long shot.

The film also perfectly captures the holiday atmosphere of yesteryear, whether or not originating from old postcards, which of course never really existed.

and at the same time makes fun of it, using all kinds of archetypes, such as the sporty ball, the know-it-all student, the shy girl, or the elderly couple who watch everything and everyone carefully and critically, without ever participating in any activity themselves. to take. Very nice done.

However, it is of course Tati herself in the role of Hulot, who steals the show and unintentionally blunders through everything and manages to cause some commotion among the other bathers.

A really nice film, which I like to keep watching every few years and also contains the ultimate tip to be able to win Roland Garros.

An eight or four stars.

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