Review of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) by Adrian T — 31 Dec 2006

French comedy of the time, was indeed hilarious.

Jacques Tati stumbles his way through his vacation along the beach, interveining in people's lives and often annoying the man in charge of the establishment.

Certain classic moments of comedy include: Tati trying to save sinking bread from its hook, a squeaky door which no one challenges aloud, bursts of jazz music during the night, an utterly hilarious display of fireworks at 2:00am, a lively dead fox rug and a false shark in the water. guess who's fault that one was? Tati of course. and the set-up of this comedy is flawless.

The only set-back is lacking of verbal communication between the characters. and although it is meant to have this perpurse, I felt that several comic circumstances could have been taken advantage of with verbal comedy aswell as the never-ending slapstick.

Nevertheless, Jacques, my new favourite visual comedian brings subtle innocence to his ever guilty Mr. Hulot at the expense of the other guests, usually involving their belongings being abused in rude, hilarious manners.

Great film, and should be viewed all around.