The week before I watched this movie, I had seen my first Jacques Tati films, the feature JOUR DE FETE and three shorts. I enjoyed the other films tremendously and was eagerly looking forward to the well-regarded MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY. I haven't been this disappointed in a movie in quite a long time. There is *maybe* enough material in this movie for an 11-minute short film; I didn't even chuckle until about a half an hour in. The rest may make for pleasant enough travel photography, but it's essentially all filler. Situations are constantly being set up but go nowhere. For example, there's a costume party scene. Lots of opportunity for laughs, right? Wrong. Absolutely nothing happens. It's like the outtakes from a much better movie. "Well, we staged a costume party, but it didn't go anywhere, so we left it out of the REAL movie and spliced it into this outtake reel called MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY."
Review of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
