Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)

NR02/25/1953Comedy1h 27m
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It's laugh-vacation time!

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jacques Tati

    Monsieur Hulot

  2. Cast 1

    Nathalie Pascaud

    Martine

  3. Micheline Rolla

    The Aunt

  4. Louis Perrault

    Fred

  5. Cast 1

    Valentine Camax

    Englishwoman

  6. André Dubois

    Commandant

  7. Cast 1

    Lucien Frégis

    Hotel Proprietor

  8. Raymond Carl

    Waiter

  9. Cast 1

    René Lacourt

    Strolling Man

Anyone remember the “Huggetts”? Well I reckon Jacques Tati had similar frolics in mind when he despatched “M. Hulot” on holiday just a few years after they had had their own holiday camp experience. Unlike them, though, “Hulot” has the seaside to serve as the foil for his dead-pan, slapstick, escapades as his arrival at a hitherto peaceful resort causes an equal measure of mayhem and havoc. Right from the outset in his glorified jalopy, you just know that this has comedic disaster written all over it and true to expectations, that is what we get. His unique style of playing tennis raises murmu...