Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr Hulot's Holiday), saw the birth of this recurrent character in the work of Jacques Tati. A clumsy character who unseemingly makes one mistake after another. I had the idea of introducing Monsieur Hulot, a totally independent character, who is entirely disinterested, and whose absent-mindedness is his main stumbling block, in fact he is – in our functional age – maladjusted" (Jacques Tati). Tati was totally at ease with the burlesque, and said that "in comic films, apart from the purely comic effect, visual gags, dialogues, the perfect line or a sound effect which is there to distract or amuse the audience, I think that a little drama is always hidden away. The construction of every comic film is based on dramatic effect. Monsieur Hulot wants to have a nice holiday, and despite everything, the businessman continues to want to do business, the intellectual to reorganise Europe, and the former commander to talk about his acts of war. Hulot, however, has come for a holiday. Well! Despite everything, he is not accepted by society as a whole. You mustn't forget that!" (Jacques Tati).