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1967 · 115 min · Comedy

The gentle, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loses himself in a gleaming, ultramodern Paris of glass towers and baffling gadgets, his wanderings crossing paths with a busload of American tourists. Jacques Tati's dazzling, near-wordless comic vision of the modern city.

Why it’s here

Jacques Tati’s monumental visual comedy transforms modern Paris into one of cinema’s most ambitious works of architecture, sound, and choreography.

Runtime

115 min

Genre

Comedy

Mood

funny

Entry

some context

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a lighter route · film history