M. Hulot's Holiday - Criterion Collection
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780023970
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023978
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 9177
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: June 16, 1954
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Pipe-smoking Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati's endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati's wildly funny satire of vacationers determined to enjoy themselves includes a series of precisely choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats and firecrackers. The first entry in the Hulot series is a masterpiece of gentle slapstick.
Amazon.com 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 for the comic possibilities in everything: composition, lighting, minimal marble-mouth dialogue, certain sounds (a duck call, a door repeatedly opening and shutting). This is a superior work that ranks among all-time classic comedies. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
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- A French Charlie ChaplinVery clever and entertaining unusually funny comedy. Few actual conversations, but mostly visual effects ... Read More
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- M. Hulot's HolidayA delightful movie from a gentler time. I first saw this in a 16 mm. cinematic format at a friend's house ... Read More
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- Timeless French classic - very funny, absolutely enjoyableNot much dialogue, but you don't need it. Just enjoy the idiosyncrasies of human nature and laugh. Absolutely ... Read More
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- Not so greatTastes in comedy must have really changed in the last 50 years. I found most of the humor in this to be very strained. ... Read More
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- An aquired tasteHaving never seen a Tati film in my 40 something years, I was probably expecting too much from this 1950's French comedy. ... Read More
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