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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday  (U)   114 mins

Jacques Tati's 1953 comic masterpiece follows the small adventures of Monsieur Hulot, who arrives in a Breton seaside resort and inadvertently causes havoc wherever he goes.  Nominated for the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1953, and for an Oscar three years later.  Filmed in black and white.

"After 50 years, M Hulot still looks as smart as paint. Its humour is gentle, innocent and charming and the semi-silent idiom is superbly managed. The movie is perfectly composed with a light touch that is the work of a certain kind of gravity and sophistication."  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"When has a film so subtly and yet so completely captured nostalgia for past happiness?  The movie is about the simplest of human pleasures: the desire to get away for a few days, to play instead of work, to breathe in the sea air, and maybe meet someone nice.  It is about the hope that underlies all vacations, and the sadness that ends them.  And it is amused, too, that we go about our days so intently, while the sea and the sky go about theirs."  Roger Ebert

No official site, but full details at www.imdb.com 

Showing:

07-June    Bradford Peverell  CANCELLED

09-July     Sherborne

19-July     South Wonston

Last modified: 07-May-2008

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