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Cannes in the retro: Jacques Tati and Monsieur Hulot on the goguette on the Croisette

2022-05-17T06:14:13.955Z


DAY 1 - François Chalais' interviews marked the history of the Festival. For this anniversary edition, the 75th, Le Figaro and Madelen, INA's unlimited streaming platform, invite you to find them from May 17 to 28.


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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"

Cinepanorama

"

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...

Source: lefigaro

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