{"id":5802,"date":"2011-02-06T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:23:19","slug":"m-hulots-holiday-1953-jacques-tati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5802","title":{"rendered":"M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953, Jacques Tati)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this ages ago and didn’t get it. Now that I’ve enjoyed Mon Oncle<\/em> and seen Playtime<\/a><\/em> a few times, I wasn’t thrown by Tati’s Buster Keatonesque style – series of gags setting up the next series of gags, with funny sound effects but almost no dialogue. Other notable similarities to Playtime<\/em>: jokes about malfunctioning technology (mostly automobiles, but also an indecipherable train station announcement speaker) and an extended delay before the first appearance of our hero Tati\/Hulot.<\/p>\n

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It’s a weirdly understated gag movie – some big slapstick scenes like when Hulot sets off a box full of fireworks, but mostly more subtle. There are enough unnamed characters intersecting in different ways in each scene to make Altman proud (I especially noticed a young woman with a Princess Leia hairdo).<\/p>\n

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I watched the original full-length version – most DVDs only have Tati’s own re-edit from the 70’s. I’m sure that by the time I rent the Criterion and watch the shorter version I won’t be able to precisely recall the differences. Half of Tati’s movies exist in multiple versions – Jour de fete<\/a><\/em> is in black and white and color, Mon Oncle<\/em> is in French and English and Playtime<\/em> had a bunch of different edits.<\/p>\n

Leia with an insufferable leftist who insists on talking politics while everyone is on vacation:<\/em>
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Hulot annoying a hotel worker:<\/em>
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I saw this ages ago and didn’t get it. Now that I’ve enjoyed Mon Oncle and seen Playtime a few times, I wasn’t thrown by Tati’s Buster Keatonesque style – series of gags setting up the next series of gags, with funny sound effects but almost no dialogue. Other notable similarities to Playtime: jokes about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,13,34,141],"class_list":["post-5802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-criterion","tag-france","tag-jacques-tati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10630,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions\/10630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}