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(out of 5)
Jacques Tati continues the adventures of his popular character Monsieur Hulot. This time Hulot takes on the modern world when his sister and her husband buy themselves a super-futuristic house complete with instant oven and antiseptic pebble garden. Thinking him behind the times in his charmingly rustic existence, his brother-in-law gets him a job at his plastics factory. In the meantime, Hulot’s precocious young nephew keeps company with him as he’s the only adult that he can relate to, and their silly adventures make up the bulk of this sometimes delightful, sometimes exasperating French comedy.
Specta Films, Gray-Film, Alter Films, Film del Centauro, Cady Films, Gaumont Distribution
Directed by Jacques Tati
Screenplay by Jacques Tati, collaboration with Jacques Lagrange, Jean L’Hote
Cinematography by Jean Bourgoin
Produced by Jacques Tati
Music by Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans
Production Design by Henri Schmitt
Costume Design by Jacques Cottin
Film Editing by Suzanne Baron
Academy Awards: 1958
Cannes Film Festival: 1958
