On December 18 the Moma’s retrospective of “the French screenwriter, director and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907-1982)” started.
Tonight I saw Tati’s movie “Mr. Hulot’s Holiday” (Les Vancances de Monsieur Hulot).
Tati’s slapstick is not as political as Chaplin’s and not as absurd and mean as Keaton’s. At least in this movie Tati is a benign commenter on the customs of the bourgeois during their holiday in a small French seaside resort shortly after World War II.