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Time Out says
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
Release details
Rated:
U
UK release:
1967
Duration:
152 mins
Cast and crew
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Cast:
Valérie Camille, Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, France Rumilly, Jacqueline Lecomte
Screenwriter:
Jacques Lagrange, Jacques Tati
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