Monsieur Hulot at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, but without his raincoat, hat and umbrella.
He thus passes almost incognito on a Croisette where his name, on the other hand, is very present.
In 1953, Jacques Tati created the film event of the year with
Monsieur Hulot's Vacation
.
Critics hailed a writer-director-actor who took up the principles of silent cinema by adapting them to the world of talkies.
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by François Chalais with Jacques Tati
His name is now added to those of the masters of burlesque of the Roaring Twenties, from Charlie Chaplin to Max Linder via Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.
"I imagined a character of complete independence, of absolute disinterestedness and whose thoughtlessness, which is his main fault, in fact, in our functional era, a misfit"
, he explains to those who question him.
He sometimes specifies that this character was born from the observation of the silhouette of a neighbor of the building where he lived: an architect who is none other than the grandfather of a certain Nicolas...
The director then prepared a new feature
Mon oncle
which, in 1958, was awarded the Special Jury Prize.
Confidences that are added to those he makes to the camera of François Chalais and that you will discover...