Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
- Jacques Tati: Monsieur Hulot
- Nathalie Pascaud: Martine
- Michele Rolla: Martines aunt
- Valentine Camax: the Englishwoman
- Louis Perrault: Monsieur Fred
- André Dubois: the commander
The Mr. Hulot's Holiday from 1953 after several short films, the second feature film by French director Jacques Tati. The work had in France premiere on 25 February 1953.
Action
In a small Breton seaside resort very different people spend their holidays, including English and German. While the other guests to fulfill their pleasures such as swimming, tennis, card game and community evenings, caused a guest, Monsieur Hulot inadvertently turbulence after another. With his fondness for jazz music, he disturbed the roommate of the board and wakes them at night with his loud old car. He passes through a rowing boat on the beach and brings the impression that it was with him to a shark.
In an attempt to put a picture straight, he leaves a room with some demolished and damaged objects. Without practical knowledge in tennis match, he defeated all the guests alone with his unusual Charge ( whose technique he has copied during quality demonstration in the acquisition of the club by the seller ), what inspires acting as referee Englishwoman hellauf. He plays enthusiastically with a German boy table tennis and brings in his quest for the wily ball through his move from card players during the playing off two rounds as independent map in dispute that it comes to blows. He dissolves his flight from pursuing him dogs in a cabin inadvertently been in the night before the end of the holidays that this imaginary fireworks. While the other guests listen to the radio a speech, he dances better with the young Martine, who, along with an old Englishwoman, a Swiss and the son of a German couple as only feels sympathy for him. When he wants to go riding with Martine, he did not manage to mount his white horse and this locks after the knocking another guest in the car, so that Hulot rather take flight.
Involved are his experiences in a series of small scenes, the less an act than snapshots provide: At the train station, where people always show up after incomprehensible announcements to the wrong platforms and always retract the trains to the other tracks; the dog sleeping on the street and makes only after coaxing place; Young people who listen to Duke Ellington and English cigarette smoke; the young Communist who always keeps Martine political speeches; Children who try out their magnifying glass to sleeping adults ligand; the two women that attract the same dress to the trip and make the meeting in the hallway immediately a U-turn back into the room; the hotel staff who ogle all guests suspicious that interfere with their order.
At the end of the summer, all guests must adopt many words from each other, but cut the owl Hulot. Only the old Englishwoman and the equally old Swiss say goodbye to him; they notice that there is the lovable slob Hulot is despite the many men to Martine, who has Martine most fallen.
Comments
- M. Hulot 's Holiday works like a silent movie. There are hardly words that are also required in the various languages of the guests ( French, German and English). Musically dominates the relaxed main theme Alain Romans ', often acoustic effects are used.
- The film was shot in color, but Tati decided to bring him in black and white in the cinemas. Only in the last scene of the picture for a moment is colored.
- From the film, there are different length versions. He originally ran 114 minutes.
- Location was Saint -Marc- sur -Mer in Saint- Nazaire, the beach wearing meanwhile the name " La Plage de Monsieur Hulot " and is decorated with a statue of Monsieur Hulot. The " Hôtel de la Plage " still exists today as a slightly altered Hotel.
- Monsieur Hulot yet appeared in other films of Jacques Tati: My uncle, night school, Playtime and Trafic in.
- Jean -Claude Carrière later wrote a novelization.
- The British comedian Benny Hill took over some sketches of Tati in the 1980s: Legendary the scene where Hulot ( Tati ) arrived as a guest at dinner across the table for the salt shaker, just at the moment when the table neighbor 's mouth wanted to wipe it off with a napkin. The neighbor table thus cleaned his mouth on the sleeve of Hulot and not on the napkin - the situation comedy was perfect. This scene repeats itself after a few seconds again.
Reviews
"Like a string of pearls are the gags strung, joined by a extremely lovable intelligence and a romantic charm that goes far beyond Chaplin -calculated game. A tender - pleasing types comedy that balks at any cinematic classification not only in French cinema. "
"It is not a comedy of hilarity but a comedy of memory, nostalgia, fondness and good cheer. There are some real laughs in it, but, Mr. Hulot 's Holiday ' gives us something rarer, to amused affection for human nature- so odd, so valuable, so Particular. "
Awards
The film won the 1953 Louis- Delluc Award and participated in the Cannes Film Festival in part, in which he was awarded the "Prize of international criticism." In addition, he was awarded the Prix Femina Belgian. Tati and Henri Marquet in 1956 in the category " Best Screenplay " nominated for an Oscar. In addition to participating in the festival in Cannes, the film also took part in the Berlinale 1953.
Influence and classification
Monsieur Hulot has influenced in shaping his character Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson. Also appearances on Ministry of Silly Walks (translated as: Ministry of comic gaits ) in Monty Python's Flying Circus have similarities to Hulot's sometimes unusual walking style.
The film blogger Burello Submarine leads to three or four really memorable ways to go funny:
"I can think of three truly memorable comic walks: Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, and Jacques Tati ... then there 's the whole Monty Python's Flying Circus " Ministry of Silly Walks " but that's another story. "
DVD Release
- The Mr. Hulot's Holiday. Ufa 2005
- M. Hulot 's Holiday, Criterion Collection ( code 1), USA 2006
Soundtrack
- Alain novel: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (excerpts ) on: Extraits the original band of the film de Jacques Tati. Philips / Polygram undated, recorded music no. 836983-2