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Monsieur Hulot est un personnage de cinéma créé et interprété par le réalisateur, acteur et scénariste français, Jacques Tati, apparu en 1953 dans Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot.Il s'agit d'un personnage présentant toutes les caractéristiques du cinéma muet, bien que tous les films qui le présentent soient parlants. Celui-ci se heurte généralement à un monde impersonnel, technologique et gadgétisé.
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(1953)
(1958)Played by the actor
Filmography of Monsieur Hulot (5 films)
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Trafic (1971)
, 1h32Directed by Jacques Tati
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Jacques Tati, Franco Ressel
Rating70%
In Trafic, Hulot is a bumbling automobile designer who works for Altra, a Paris auto plant. He, along with a truck driver and a publicity agent, Maria, takes a new camper-car (designed by Hulot) to an auto show in Amsterdam. On the way there, they encounter various obstacles on the road. Some of the obstacles that Hulot and his companions encounter are getting impounded by Dutch customs guards, a car accident (meticulously choreographed by the filmmakers), and an inefficient mechanic. In the film, “Tati leaves no element of the auto scene unexplored, whether it is the after-battle recovery moments of a traffic-circle chain-reaction accident, whether it a study of drivers in repose or garage-attendants in slow-motion, the gas-station give-away (where the busts of historical figures seem to find their appropriate owners) or the police station bureaucracy.”
Evening Classes (1967)
Directed by Nicolas Ribowski
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jacques Tati
Rating62%
Tati, professeur en gags, explique à des élèves un peu bornés les règles élémentaires du comique, démonstrations à l'appui.
Playtime (1967)
, 2h4Directed by Jacques Tati
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Dystopian films
Actors Jacques Tati, France Rumilly, John Abbey, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Yves Barsacq, Laure Paillette
Rating77%
Playtime is structured in six sequences, linked by two characters who repeatedly encounter one another in the course of a day: Barbara, a young American tourist visiting Paris with a group composed primarily of middle-aged American women, and Monsieur Hulot, a befuddled Frenchman lost in the new modernity of Paris. The sequences are as follows:
Mon Oncle (1958)
, 1h50Directed by Pierre Étaix, Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Dystopian films
Actors Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Jean-François Martial, Lucien Frégis, Yvonne Arnaud
Rating76%
M. Hulot (Jacques Tati) is the dreamy, impractical, and adored uncle of nine-year-old Gérard Arpel, who lives with his materialistic parents, M. and Mme. Arpel, in an ultra-modern geometric house and garden, Villa Arpel, in a new suburb of Paris, situated just beyond the crumbling stone buildings of the old neighborhoods of the city. Gérard's parents are entrenched in a machine-like existence of work, fixed gender roles, the acquisition of status through possessions, and conspicuous displays to impress guests, such as the fish-shaped fountain at the center of the garden that, in a running gag, Mme. Arpel activates only for important visitors.
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
, 1h35Directed by Jacques Tati
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Le thème des vacances, Road movies
Actors Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, André Dubois, Raymond Carl, Suzy Willy, Lucien Frégis
Rating72%
Les vacances de M. Hulot follows the generally harmless misadventures of a lovable, gauche Frenchman, Monsieur Hulot (played by Tati himself), as he joins the "newly emerging holiday-taking classes" for an August vacation at a modest seaside resort. The film affectionately lampoons several hidebound elements of French political and economic classes, from chubby capitalists and self-important Marxist intellectuals to petty proprietors and drab dilettantes, most of whom find it nearly impossible to free themselves, even temporarily, from their rigid social roles in order to relax and enjoy life.