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Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) -- J. Tati
Monsieur Hulot
(Jacques Tati) is one of those nonchalant friendly but bumbling characters who
lays waste to everything orderly about him (demonstrating the principle of
entropy?). The film that encases him (in his first of several appearances) is
virtually dialogue-less, or at least the dialogue doesn't matter much, and thus
it takes on the shape of a series of silent clown set-pieces a la Keaton or
Chaplin. Tati (who also wrote and
directed) pays excruciating attention to the framing of shots, sound effects on
the sound track, and the mise en scene as a whole, giving the viewer the sense
that the chaos on screen is the product of well-ordered construction indeed.
Charmingly French music too.
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