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Les Vacances de M. Hulot [Blu-ray + DVD] [1953]
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| Format | PAL, Widescreen |
| Contributor | Jacques Tati |
| Language | French |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 54 minutes |
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Product description
The film that brought Jacques Tati international acclaim also launched his on-screen alter ego: the courteous, well-meaning, eternally accident prone Monsieur Hulot with whom Tati would from now on be inseparably associated. As with Jour de fête, the film is set in a sleepy French coastal resort which is seasonally disrupted by holidaymakers in energetic pursuit of fun. At the centre of the chaos is the eccentric Hulot, struggling at all times to maintain appearances, but somehow entirely divorced from his immediate surroundings. There is little plot in Tati s beautifully orchestrated ballet of comic action: it s a series of incidents, a seamless succession of gently mocking studies of human absurdity.
Extra Features:
- Newly remastered to High Definition
- Includes two different cuts of the film
- Dual Format Edition: includes both Blu-ray and the DVD versions of the main feature
- Interview with filmmaker Richard Lester (A Hard Days Night, Superman II) (DVD only)
- Original trailers for Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Mon Oncle and Playtime
- Extensive illustrated booklet featuring essays and film notes
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : French
- Package Dimensions : 17 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm; 158.76 Grams
- Item model number : 5035673010501
- Director : Jacques Tati
- Media Format : PAL, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 54 minutes
- Release date : 29 Nov. 2010
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : BFI Video
- ASIN : B0041HL5GQ
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: 94,653 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
- 3,581 in World Cinema (DVD & Blu-ray)
- 14,854 in Comedy (DVD & Blu-ray)
- 26,269 in Blu-ray
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and easy to recommend--unless you can't stand mimes, or quasi-mimes. It's really an unsentimental take on human foibles and the random whimsy
of our environment, both material and human--as well as a visual essay on the sometimes complicated nature of vacations. For me, having grown up on an island, it's probably even more vivid and evocative. There's a sweet nostalgia to it, as day after day washes past, as elemental sea and land meet, as strangers meet and glance off of one another, as we come to know each individual and his or her traits and eccentricities. And then there's tall, loping Hulot, walking through the middle of the film, oblivious to most of the chaos that follows in his wake. But finally, it's probably the longest string of truly inventive sight gags in movies, short of Keaton's best work. It's my favorite of all of Tati's films, before he became a bit more labored in his later work, a bit too self-consciously ambitious and pretentious perhaps. (Though I still enjoy them and recommend them. It's a very small body of work--the work of an obvious perfectionist--and easily worth the time invested.)
This new BFI release is the best transfer of the movie I've ever seen, complete with an insightful featured interview by Philip Kemp with the very articulate, intelligent Richard Lester. Lester actually listens carefully to the questions, thinks about his answers before responding, and you can see him refining his (and our) understanding of the "calmly framed" aesthetic of Tati. I watched the straight HD disc, not having an all-region Blu-ray player, but I don't see how the transfer could be much more detailed or much cleaner than the regular DVD included here. Worth noting, as well, is that this release includes a more generous translation into English of the French dialogue, making this release less of a silent movie and more of a quiet movie. Shot on location at an actual resort in northern France, in documentary style, this is the 1978 re-edit of the movie, one that Tati continued to tinker with from the initial 1953 release until reaching what seems to be the director's final cut of Les Vacances.
Otherwise it was a fun film but not what I wanted
Here he is more geniusly focused on his main character and the absurd and visually comical adventure on a summer holiday.
You see how gently his story is told, the story of an "alien" not belonging to the common and middle class world, and, despite that, not surrendering to it even when trying to establish a "contact" in his everyday life.
Partially belonging to the glorious club of silent movies stars (although this is more a "few words movie") whose Tati is definitely one of the most representative and highest members, he refreshed that tradition just by making a film like that years after that era elapsed, and based all his cinema on that. Out of this world, out of time, and therefore always valid and enjoyable.
It has the same feel about it as 'The Picnic' by The Two Ronnies, and you don't need to speak French to understand it as most of the humour is visual.
You may not split your sides laughing, but you'll probably enjoy a good chuckle.
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