Today I'll talk about a movie I saw for the first time last week in spite of being a major classic.
LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT (Jacques TATI - 1953)
This black and white movie from 1953 has just been restaured by two french fondations fo cinema: The thomson fondation (The thomsom group owns Technicolor among other companies) and The fondation Gan pour le cinema.
I was invited to the premier of the film in Paris with the people who worked on the restoration and the actors that are still alive. I Know Tati's work from other films like "Playtime"and "My oncle" (which i highly recomend.
But Monsieur Hulot's Holiday I have never seen before and yet the great about discovering this old movie is the possibility to watch it on the big screen. The film is like a ballet, every movement or scene is programmed and works like a clock, the jokes are funny and the audiences laughs a lot during the whole film.
There's, like in all Tati's movies, almost no dialogues and yet you don't miss them, that's the beauty of Tati.
The story tells the holidays at a small seaside french city in the 50ies, it's amazing to see how summer holidays went by at those times, Mr. Hulot one very clumsy man comes to spend his holidays at the beach hotel and from the beggining to the end is responsible for all the problems and quiprocos happening in the small town. But he does that by pure innocence and clumsyness.
The film is fresh, funny and makes you feel like going right away on holidays but in the 50ies where time seems to pass much slower. The film will be re-lauched around the world in theathers again. DON'T MISS IT!
Final words: Check when it will be showing near you and go see it!
LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT (Jacques TATI - 1953)
This black and white movie from 1953 has just been restaured by two french fondations fo cinema: The thomson fondation (The thomsom group owns Technicolor among other companies) and The fondation Gan pour le cinema.
I was invited to the premier of the film in Paris with the people who worked on the restoration and the actors that are still alive. I Know Tati's work from other films like "Playtime"and "My oncle" (which i highly recomend.
But Monsieur Hulot's Holiday I have never seen before and yet the great about discovering this old movie is the possibility to watch it on the big screen. The film is like a ballet, every movement or scene is programmed and works like a clock, the jokes are funny and the audiences laughs a lot during the whole film.
There's, like in all Tati's movies, almost no dialogues and yet you don't miss them, that's the beauty of Tati.
The story tells the holidays at a small seaside french city in the 50ies, it's amazing to see how summer holidays went by at those times, Mr. Hulot one very clumsy man comes to spend his holidays at the beach hotel and from the beggining to the end is responsible for all the problems and quiprocos happening in the small town. But he does that by pure innocence and clumsyness.
The film is fresh, funny and makes you feel like going right away on holidays but in the 50ies where time seems to pass much slower. The film will be re-lauched around the world in theathers again. DON'T MISS IT!
Final words: Check when it will be showing near you and go see it!
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