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Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) [The Criterion Collection #110]
A film by Jacques Tati - Part of "The Complete Jacques Tati - The Criterion Collection #729"
2xDVD9 | Untouched | ISO+MDS | NTSC 1.37:1 4:3 720x480 VBR 29.97 fps | 87 mn | 5.95 GB + 7.32 GB
Audio: French & English AC-3 Dolby Digital Mono @ 192 kbps 48.0 kHz | Subtitles: English
Extras: Menu, Scene Selection, Special Features | Genre: Comedy | Country: France

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala's little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine's laundry… One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front.