#Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

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Jacques Tati dans Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, 1953

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Lynch x Tati. TWIN PEAKS: FWWM (Lynch, 1992) x M. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (Tati, 1953), & TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (Lynch, 2017) x PLAYTIME (Tati, 1967)

David Lynch on Tati: "His comic genius is unsurpassed...But it is Jacques Tati's tender heart, at work in every frame, that makes us fall in love with his films. We feel so good to be alive after seeing [his] film[s]."

"Red pipes - from Jacques Tati's movie Mon Oncle. I just try and put them in my movies every now and then. I just love Jacques Tati." Below, Lynch's homage to Tati in MULHOLLAND DR. & WILD AT HEART:

Lynch: "I LOVE that guy. His whole style, & how he sees things. And again, you know, the guy's an inventor, visually, & w/ the sound, choreography, & music... Then there's his childlike love of his characters; I really dig it..."

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Current New Yorker magazine, celebrating the 2024 Paris Olympics with a Jacques Tati cover.

An oldie: A ride through town

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Les vacances de monsieur Hulot - 1953 - Jacques Tati

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Retour des Hulots après 2 mois d’absence

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Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday) (1953)

A man goes on holiday to a hotel by the beach but can’t help causing trouble for the other guests.

This movie doesn’t focus on sending a particular message. Many of the scenes appear simply to create a serene quality as we watch the holiday guests try to enjoy themselves. In this way it is almost avant garde as it elevates the mundane trivialities of life away from home into a spectacle, with a few gags thrown in to break up the tedium.

It’s really a very early and far less successful incarnation of Mr. Bean; even some of the jokes may have been adapted by the later show from this film. The comedy doesn’t work so well since even in the scenes where the gags come faster, the pace still drags and the jokes aren’t especially clever.

Rather than having planned sketches where the humour develops or in which it leads the story somewhere, it’s closer to a string fo minor inconveniences that show where the entertainment should be, with one actual source of amusement involving fireworks so that it actually builds up to something. The most entertaining aspect is that it’s an homage to silent comedy stars.

The biggest weakness is that it’s terribly slow. Even if 20 minutes of it were a pre-movie sketch to fill in the time before a real picture, it’d still drag and be confusing as to why the audience would wish to see long periods of nothing in particular occurring. It might have made a more enjoyable experience as a purely historical documentary.

2/10 -It’s not THE worst, that’s something else. But…-

-The film Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) is heavily influenced by this film and is also set in France.

-A statue of Hulot is now on the promenade where the film was shot.

-The director made revisions and re-edits to the film up to as late as 1978.

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Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot

Chronique de Monsieur Pierre Demers, cinéaste et poète rouge d’Arvida Continue reading Untitled

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Buster Keaton talking about his passion for the cinema of Jacques Tati and in particular for the film Les vacances de monsieur Hulot. Probable date: February 1962, when Buster Keaton was visiting Paris to admire the collections of Henri Langlois, founder of the Cinémathèque française.

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Jacques Tati

Dans "Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot"

1953

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It´s more of a questionnaire than interview and it´s under the cut :-)

Penelope Wilton: ‘I was dyslexic. People thought I was stupid’

The actress on flower power, the Beatles and her star turn in Downton Abbey

First film I saw at the cinema

My mother used the cinema as her nanny. She had an arrangement with the usherette where she would go shopping and leave my sister and me at the cinema. When she had finished shopping she would come down the aisle and wave a white hanky — that was our sign to leave. Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot was the first film I remember seeing. Jacques Tati was such a great clown.

First time I cried at the cinema

I don’t tend to cry over films. Usually I cry in front of paintings or at concerts. I did, however, sob through the film Brief Encounter. It’s so terribly touching. I still get a lump in my throat every time I watch it.

First time I performed on a stage

My first job was at 20, as Tammy the tightrope walker in a Christmas show at the Nottingham Playhouse. Theatre is always anxious-making and it gets worse when you’re older. There have been some funny things happening while I’ve been on stage, though. One audience member heckled Ralph Richardson and me over bad language during the play West of Suez when we performed in Brighton. Another acclaimed actor, who will remain nameless, was embarrassingly drunk on the stage once, forcing me to say his lines and mine. It was madness.

First TV show I watched

We didn’t have a television for a long time while I was a child. I think we had one for the coronation but then it seemed to go. It wasn’t until I was a bit older that I became aware of television, and even now I don’t seem to have much time to watch things, mainly because I’m busy acting in plays and TV shows like Downton Abbey, which was a wonderful experience. It was a surprise to us all, including the writer Julian Fellowes, that it was so successful here and everywhere. It was particularly lovely to work with Maggie Smith because she was one of the actors I had always admired. I would be very keen to come back to the show if it were to return. I can hardly leave it now.

First book I loved

I was dyslexic as a child, at a time when dyslexia wasn’t diagnosed. You didn’t get much help — people just thought you were stupid. My dyslexia seems to have got better with age, but when I was younger I was read to by my mother and my older sister rather than reading myself. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was a favourite.

First album I bought

Please Please Me by the Beatles. Growing up I listened to romantic music like Dionne Warwick on the radiogram in our sitting room. Nowadays I listen to more classical music, but I still have a soft spot for the Beatles. Sadly I lost that LP when we moved houses.

First concert I attended

The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky at the Royal Albert Hall when I was about ten. They had real cannons that went off. I only started going to concerts when I was older. My late husband, the [Roads to Freedom] actor Daniel Massey, was a great classical music fan. He taught me a lot about music, in particular jazz and Erroll Garner.

First pop-inspired fashion trends I adopted

Hotpants and thigh-length boots in bright pink suede. Once you went to drama school, you didn’t have any money and could do what you wanted looks-wise. It was all flower power then, so we would walk around with no shoes on, throwing flowers at each other. It was alternative but lovely.

First actor I admired

Michael Redgrave. I saw him give the most tremendous performance in Uncle Vanya at Chichester in 1963 when I was 17. Laurence Olivier was the Doctor. Together they were funny and heartbreaking. Redgrave was a wonderful actor and, more importantly, a wonderful man.

First moment I realised I wanted to be an actress

I went to a pantomime once and there was a whoosh and the curtain went up. There was this bright light and warm air came out. I thought, “I don’t know why I’m sitting in the dark here. I’d like to be up there.”

First famous person I met

Jonathan Miller when he came to Nottingham Playhouse to direct King Lear. I was a bit starstruck then, but meeting the royal family is the only time I get truly anxious.

First moment I realised I’d made it

Even at my age I don’t think I have. If you started, you wouldn’t be very good. So I will continue to try.

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Jacques Tati dans "Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot" tourné en 1951 et 1952 et sorti en 1953

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Jacques Tati dans "Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot" tourné en 1951 et 1952 et sorti en 1953

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20 Classic Films to Give You Vintage Summery Vibes

(Or to help you romanticize the season, if you're not a big fan of it, like me.)

*I went for anything pre-1980 for those who were looking for something more on the vintage/retro side. I also tried to pick from a selection of different genres to suit whatever mood you might be in.

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Comedy:

Gidget (1959)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday/Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)

The Parent Trap (1961)

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

You're Only Young Once (1937)

Drama/Thriller/Suspense:

Key Largo (1948)

Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

Picnic (1955)

Rear Window (1954)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Horror/Sci-fi:

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Jaws (1975)

Piranha (1978)

Musical:

Beach Party (1963)

Grease (1978)

Moon Over Miami (1941)

State Fair (1945)

State Fair (1962)

Summer Stock (1950)

Viva Las Vegas (1964)

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