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Director: Jacques Tati
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From Time Out Film Guide
Tati's Hulot on the loose in a surreal, scarcely recognisable Paris, tangling intermittently with a troop of nice American matrons on a 24-hour trip. Not so much a saga of the individual against an increasingly dehumanised decor, it's more a semi-celebratory symphony to Tati's sensational city-set, all reflections and rectangles, steel, chrome, gleaming sheet metal and trompe l'oeil plate glass. Shot in colour that looks almost like monochrome, recorded in five-track stereo sound with scarcely a word of speech (the mysterious language of objects echoes louder than words), this jewel of Tati's career is a hallucinatory comic vision on the verge of abstraction.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Tati
Producer: René Silvera
Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte, Valérie Camille, France Rumilly full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: U
Duration: 152 mins
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