As a comedy genius in French film history, Jacques Tati brings a masterpiece inspired by comedy alive with his unique camera language and physical performance.
Concise and crisp lines and a deep-focus lens with a large panorama, the film establishes a modern city full of technology with modernist buildings and clean streets at the beginning of the film.
But in this high-tech city, the fish in the fountain opened only when guests come, has become a humorous irony. The hostess carefully introduces and plays her urban female image. Behind the avant-garde design of the home, what is revealed is behind the glitzy scene. 's false appearance.
Maintaining Mr. Hulot's consistent character image, very little dialogue, and funny physical performance, the film is shown through a long panoramic shot of Mr. Hulot going upstairs. This unique shot design has become a classic scene in film history. .
The mischievous little devil and the childlike mischief made Gerald as a child linger, and the expression on the boy's face when he returned home also showed that the modern home architecture locked the child's innocence like a wall.
The cool-toned modern buildings are in sharp contrast with the warm yellow and streets full of fireworks, expressing the simple atmosphere lacking in modern cities.
At the beginning of the banquet, the host and hostess and the guests were politely getting along, but there was a lack of sincerity and humanity. The restrained stone steps on the grass also became the shackles that bound people's footsteps and materialized people's freedom.
Only Mr. Hulot has become the only variable in this modern world, cutting the rattan, puncturing the water pipe, going upstairs to pour out the water in the shoes, each humorous plot broke the restraint and order of the banquet, making the banquet become Lively and interesting, the arrival of the dog completely broke the shackles in this wall.
In the next set of shots, the tipping dog becomes a signal for the workers to stop fishing. Mr. Hulot's plot performance in this sausage workshop is even more interesting, making people reminiscent of Mr. Chaplin's modern era.
Then the hostess and the hostess were locked in an intelligent garage on their wedding anniversary, which is undoubtedly a satire of modern life.
In the end, Mr. Hulot left, but the humor he left behind became a gift from the people of the town.
The dogs are together again, and the town is peaceful again.
It's a masterpiece from 1958 that Jacques Tati expresses his vision for modernism while also revealing the hypocrisy of the bourgeois era.
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