Monsieur Hulot

Jacques Tati. Gaunt Film Company, 1958. Enter Monsieur Hulot; a creation of Jacques Tati and an embodiment of pure comic genius. In the film, we’re introduced to the quaint, lively, simple, and positively extraordinary life of Monsieur Hulot and his culture. The family of M. Hulot includes his nephew Gérard, his sister Madame Arpel and her husband Monsieur Arpel. The Arpel family and M. Hulot come from vastly different lives and cultures. Hulot lives in a beautiful boarding house which is home to many diverse and happy people, who often communicate through warm feelings and actions; in contrast, the Arpel family lives in the center of a modernistic suburb that’s drearily colored with shades of grey and filled with almost non-existent neighbors, that when present, seem to…