Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) on Netflix
Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel for his summer holiday, and his well-meaning clumsiness disrupts the other guests, including Martine and her aunt.
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Plot summary
Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.
—Ian Pugh
Monsieur Hulot goes on a holiday to a seaside resort but accidents and misunderstandings follow him wherever he goes. The hotel guests' peace and quiet doesn't last with Hulot around, because although his intentions are good, they always turn catastrophic.
—Leon Wolters
The summer holidays have arrived and the bumbling Monsieur Hulot - along with everyone else - heads for the seaside. Hulot is something of an innocent. Pretty well everything he touches goes bad but he is oblivious to the havoc he creates everywhere he goes. Whether it be eating in the dining room, painting a boat or playing tennis, his life is an adventure for everyone around him.
—garykmcd
It's the summer holiday season in Europe, and M. Hulot, like many others, has decided to spend his vacation at the French seaside, specifically at l'Hotel de la Plage resort. Quite often with a pipe in his mouth, Hulot is a pretty quiet fellow, but that still does not stop him from getting into a lot of trouble while there. Although he does get along with many of the other resort guests - such as the Englishwoman who is amazed at the effectiveness of his unique tennis style, or the beautiful Martine - most, unfortunately, must deal with the bad outcomes of his unintentionally bumbling, albeit good-natured, actions.
Cast
- Louis Péraultas Fred
- Micheline Rollaas The Aunt
- André Duboisas Commandant
- Raymond Carlas Waiter
- Suzy Willyas Commandant's Wife
- Marguerite Gérardas Strolling Woman
- Nicole Chomoas Denise - Girl Scout with Backpack
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jacques Tati had fallen in love with the beguiling coastline while staying in nearby Port Charlotte with friends before the war, and resolved to return one day to make a film there; Les Vacances was shot in Saint-Marc-sur-Mer, on the edge of the industrial port of Saint-Nazaire.
- Jacques Tati withdrew his original 1953 version in 1959, a second version released in 1962 was pulled from circulation and held in escrow because of his 1967 bankruptcy, and his 1978 reissue trimmed twelve minutes and added new footage he described as "definitive".
- A bronze statue of the character Monsieur Hulot was later erected and now overlooks the beach where the film was made.
- The film's comic influence reached well beyond France and can be seen as recently as 2007 in the Rowan Atkinson comedy Mr. Bean's Holiday.
