1953 | H264 | B&W | 88’ | French, English, German; Turkish subtitle | France
September, 19 Tuesday, 21.00, Eski Köylü Pazarı
In his review of Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot's Holiday for Cahiers du cinéma, famous film critic and theorist André Bazin wrote, “the most radical innovation in comic cinema since the Marx Brothers”, praising it as an “extraordinary masterpiece”. Following his first attempts at short and feature films, Tati has perfected his sense of humour in this film. It is obvious that he was influenced by the physical comedy of Chaplin and especially Buster Keaton, but for Tati the mise-en-scène has always been an element of humour in itself and he was a director who constructed his films on design. On the other hand, his second feature film is also the first appearance of the Monsieur Hulot character identified with Tati. Contradicting the conventional storyline structure, the film is about Hulot staying in a hotel in the seaside town of Saint-Marc-sur-Mer and ruining the vacation of the other guests with his clumsiness. Chaos is rarely this much fun.
The festival will be screening a restored version of this comedy classic, which was re-released in Turkey last month.
DIRECTOR
Jacques Tati
CAST
Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Michele Rolla, Valentine Camax, Louis Perrault, André Dubois
SCREENPLAY
Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jacques Mercanton, Jean Mousselle
EDITING
Charles Bretoneiche, Jacques Grassi, Suzanne Baron
MUSIC
Alain Romans
PRODUCER
Fred Orain
TURKISH SALES
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