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- Actor : Jacques Tati
- Actor : Nathalie Pascaud
- Actor : Micheline Rolla
- Actor : Raymond Carl
- Actor : Lucien Frégis
- Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Binding : DVD
- Creator : Jacques Tati
- Creator : Jacques Tati
- Creator : Nathalie Pascaud
- Creator : Fred Orain
- Creator : Henri Marquet
- Creator : Jacques Lagrange
- Creator : Jean-Marie Huard
- Creator : Pierre Aubert
- Director : Jacques Tati
- Director : René Clément
- EAN : 9780780023970
- Format : Black & White
- Format : DVD-Video
- Format : Full Screen
- Format : Subtitled
- Format : NTSC
- Is Adult Product? : No
- ISBN : 0780023978
- Label : Criterion
- Languages : Subtitled: English, Original Language: English, Original Language: French
- Manufacturer : Criterion
- MPN : PMIDHUL040D
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Number Of Items : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.50 inches (Length) x 0.15 pounds (Weight) x 5.30 inches (Width)
- Package Quantity : 1
- Part Number : PMIDHUL040D
- Product Group : DVD
- Publisher : Criterion
- Region Code : 1
- Release Date : 2004-01-06
- Running Time : 87
- SKU : 11953
- Studio : Criterion
- UPC : 037429155721
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
- Amazon.co.uk Review
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