TATI’S RIGHT-HAND MAN
Jun 10, 2009There’s a cornucopia for Tati fans over at Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell’s blog, Observations on Film Art and Film Art. In a new entry, Thompson spotlights painter Jacques . . .
Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati’s eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose. Tati directs and stars in the second entry of the Hulot series, a delightful satire of mechanized living.
| Monsieur Hulot | Jacques Tati |
| Monsieur Arpel | Jean-Pierre Zola |
| Madame Arpel | Adrienne Servantie |
| Monsieur Pichard | Lucien Frégis |
| Betty, landlord's daughter | Betty Schneider |
| Walter | J.F. Martial |
| Neighbor | Dominique Marie |
| Georgette, the maid | Yvonne Arnaud |
| Madame Pichard | Adélaïde Danieli |
| Gerald Arpel | Alain Becourt |
| Braces dealer | Régis Fontenay |
| Director | Jacques Tati |
| Artistic collaboration | Jacques Lagrange |
| Producer | Louis Dolivet |
| Cinematography | Jean Bourgoin |
| Sets | Henri Schmitt |
| Music | Alain Romans and Frank Barcellini |
There’s a cornucopia for Tati fans over at Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell’s blog, Observations on Film Art and Film Art. In a new entry, Thompson spotlights painter Jacques . . .
Some of you might have seen the news item on our website regarding the Jacques Tati “centennial-plus” and the exhibits . . .
More than fifty years after he first appeared on-screen, it seems that Monsieur Hulot has finally quit smoking. And not voluntarily. In accordance with a 1991 law prohibiting tobacco advertising in subway stations and on buses, the Paris Public Transport Network has demanded that Hulot’s iconic . . .
Paris is turning into Tativille starting tomorrow, April 8, until August 2, with the Cinémathèque française’s appropriately large-scale retrospective of the famously . . .
When you first see Monsieur Hulot, the whimsical wanderer played by Jacques Tati in the classic French comedy Mon oncle, it takes a moment to realize just how big he is—a two-meter slab of trenchcoat and fedora, his lips perpetually pressed around the stem of a black pipe. He . . .
We first met Mr. Hulot on a holiday, at a rundown seaside resort hotel, a loner but hardly a recluse. Immensely likable, eager to turn all living creatures into his loving friends (and usually successful at it): Why would such a charming, appealing fellow go off on a holiday by himself, one . . .
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