Comedy
French
1958 · Directed by Jacques Tati · 118 min
Monsieur Hulot, a gentle, shambling bachelor, lives in a crowded old quarter of Paris and adores his young nephew, who lives in a gleaming ultra-modern house across town. The film is a nearly wordless comedy about two ways of living, told through gadgets, gardens, doorways and sounds.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining work of postwar European comedy that carried silent-film visual gags into the colour, consumer age. It also shaped modern thinking about how film can stage space and sound.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about spaces: how streets, stairs, gardens and rooms shape the way people move and behave.
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