90% (2)  Playtime  115 min,  Not Rated,  [Comedy]  [Jacques Tati]  [27 Jun 1973]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 80%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  2 wins.
Actors:  Barbara Dennek, France Rumilly, Jacques Tati, Rita Maiden
Writer:  Jacques Tati (original screenplay), Jacques Lagrange (collaboration), Art Buchwald (additional English dialogue)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, English, German    Country:  France, Italy
Plot:  Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Hilarious, dazzlingly inventive comedy in which Mr. Hulot tries to function in an unrecognizable Paris of modernistic glass-and-steel skyscrapers.
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87% (2)  Monsieur Hulot's Holiday  83 min,  Not Rated,  [Comedy]  [Jacques Tati]  [16 Jun 1954]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 75%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors:  Jacques Tati, Micheline Rolla, Nathalie Pascaud, Valentine Camax
Writer:  Pierre Aubert (with the collaboration of), Jacques Lagrange (with the collaboration of), Henri Marquet (dialogue), Henri Marquet (screenplay), Henri Marquet (story), Jacques Tati (dialogue), Jacques Tati (screenplay), Jacques Tati (story)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, English, German    Country:  France
Plot:  Monsieur Hulot goes on a holiday to a seaside resort, but accidents and misunderstandings follow him where ever he goes. The peace and quiet of the hotel guests don't last very long with Hulot around, because although his intensions are good, they always turn out catastrophically.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Already familiar to many, especially following his acclaimed directorial debut Jour De Fete, Jacques Tati came into his own and reached new levels of popularity with 1953's Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot. The first film to introduce his much-loved alter ego Monsieur Hulot, it sets the pattern for future appearances of the character, throwing the bumbling hero unwittingly into the middle of the action and letting the ensuing mishaps provoke humor ranging from gentle observations to fairly biting satire. The setting this time is a stuffy resort community fond of the peace and quiet that Hulot interrupts without fail. Nearly dialogue-free and driven more by episode than plot (like all of the Hulot films), standout set pieces include a disrupted funeral, an interrupted game of cards, and -- one of Tati's signature bits -- a game of tennis played with rules that can politely be called unconventional. ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi
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87% (2)  Jour de Fête  70 min,  Not Rated,  [Comedy]  [Jacques Tati]  [11 May 1949]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 74%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors:  Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Maine Vallée, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Writer:  Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, René Wheeler
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French    Country:  France
Plot:  Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabitants are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy - but everybody tells him, how important his work is. Sneering up Francois continues in the evening of the festive day. Made drunk, some 'friends' persuade him to watch a short-movie in a tent. This film is a stunt-show, covered as 'The modern delivery-techniques of the US-post. Francois takes it serious, not recognizing being teased. Next day, after getting sober in a goods wagon, he reorganizes his own delivery-methods. He has not the equipment, as his ideals in the short-movie have, but using only his bicycle, he makes good, funny progresses.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In Jacques Tati's charming -- and essentially plotless -- pre-Hulot first feature, Tati is Francois, a contented and happy postman in a small, unhurried French village. Francois is at ease with his job and leisurely performs his duties, peddling away on his rounds upon his beloved bicycle. Things perk up when a traveling carnival arrives in town. One of the attractions at the carnival is a film depicting the United States Postal Service's fast and efficient postal delivery system. The narrator in the film exhorts, "Rapidite, rapidite." Francois takes up the call, and attempts to Americanize his work style. Intriguingly, Tati originally shot this film in two simultaneous processes - a black-and-white one and an experimental color one called 'Thomson-Color' - but was forced to release the black-and-white when he ran into problems printing the color film; he subsequently tinted select sequences, then in the late 1990s his daughter (a film editor) prepared and released a color version of the entire movie. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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86% (2)  Trafic  96 min,  G,  [Comedy]  [Jacques Tati]  [11 Dec 1972]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 72%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors:  François Maisongrosse, Honoré Bostel, Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval
Writer:  Jacques Tati (original scenario), Jacques Lagrange (artistic collaboration), Bert Haanstra (participation)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, Dutch, English    Country:  France, Italy
Plot:  At Altra Motors, Mr. Hulot designs an ingenious camper car with lots of clever features. A lorry hauls the prototype to an important auto show in Amsterdam, with Mr. Hulot alongside in his car and a spoiled, trendy PR exec, the young Maria, in her sports car packed with designer clothes and her fluffy dog. The lorry has every imaginable problem, delaying its arrival. A flat tire, no gas, an accident, a run-in with police, a stop at a garage, and numerous traffic jams showcase vignettes of people and their cars. Through interactions with these down-to-earth folks, Maria gradually loses her imperious conceit, becoming much more relaxed and fetching.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This comedy is one of the few films by French comedian/filmmaker Jacques Tati (1908-82), born Jacques Tatischeff. His small output is attributed to his perfectionism. Tati wrote, directed, and acted in the films he made. Among his notable films are Jour de Fete, and Mon Oncle. Although his nearly silent films were made long after Buster Keaton's hallmark silent films, his work is often compared to Keaton's. The story concerns Tati's efforts to deliver a gadget-filled prototype car to an auto show in Amsterdam. Along the way, he and his compatriots run into every type of traffic obstacle imaginable. One highlight is a segment comparing cars' windshield wipers with their owners, to devastating effect. This film was released again in 1972 in the American market with 11 minutes cut from it.
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85% (2)  Mon Oncle  116 min,  Not Rated,  [Comedy]  [Jacques Tati]  [03 Nov 1958]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 78%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 92%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors:  Adrienne Servantie, Betty Schneider, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Lucien Frégis
Writer:  Jacques Lagrange (artistic collaboration), Jean L'Hôte (artistic collaboration), Jacques Tati
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French    Country:  France, Italy
Plot:  Monsieur Hulot's brother-in-law is the manager of a factory where plastics are manufactured. His nephew grows up in a house where everything is fully automated and the boy is raised in a similar fashion. To take away the influence of the uncle on his son, his brother-in-law gets Hulot a job in his factory.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In Jacques Tati's first color film, he again plays Monsieur Hulot, a man of simple means living an uncomplicated life. The home of Hulot's sister and brother-in-law is ultra-modern but holds no appeal for Hulot's nephew. So, the boy enlists his uncle's help in waging war on the modern world.
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55% (2)  Parade  84 min,  [Comedy, Family]  [Jacques Tati]  [18 Dec 1974]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 50%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Michèle Brabo, Pierre Bramma
Writer:  Jacques Tati
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, Swedish, English    Country:  France, Sweden
Plot:  Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.
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74% (1)  The School for Postmen  16 min,  [Short, Comedy]  [Jacques Tati]  [06 Aug 2014]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 74%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Writer:  Jacques Tati
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French    Country:  France
Plot:  School for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
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