Films byTexts by Jacques Tati
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10.04.2019
Van film naar boek

Monsieur Hulot op vakantie

Die “beschaafde, als automatische mens”, Monsieur Hulot, zette zijn eerste stappen in Jacques Tati’s film Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot uit 1953. Weinig geweten is dat vooraleer Hulot opnieuw opduikt in Mon oncle (1958), hij ook verscheen in een gelijknamige boekversie van zijn filmdebuut. Nochtans verrast de naam van de auteur van deze grotendeels vergeten of miskende novellisatie: een jonge Jean-Claude Carrière, de scenarist van films van Jean-Luc Godard en Nagisa Oshima, maar vooral van het late werk van Luis Buñuel en Philippe Garrel. 

FILM
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Jacques Tati, 1953, 114’

“It makes me sound old-fashioned, but I think I am an anarchist.”

Jacques Tati

 

“In a normal world, one would go out and walk into just any theater to see a film by Jacques Tati. Or Chaplin.”

Pedro Costa

 

FILM
Playtime
Jacques Tati, 1967, 115’

“It makes me sound old-fashioned, but I think I am an anarchist.”

Jacques Tati

 

“In a normal world, one would go out and walk into just any theater to see a film by Jacques Tati. Or Chaplin.”

Pedro Costa

 

FILM
Jour de fête
Jacques Tati, 1949, 70’

“It makes me sound old-fashioned, but I think I am an anarchist.”

Jacques Tati

 

“In a normal world, one would go out and walk into just any theater to see a film by Jacques Tati. Or Chaplin.”

Pedro Costa

 

FILM
Trafic
Jacques Tati, 1971, 96’

“Comedians are often our best historians of the present because they are at once intensely invested in and poorly adapted to their moment, at one and yet out of sync with their surroundings and situation.

FILM
Mon oncle
Jacques Tati, 1958, 117’

Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

 

“It makes me sound old-fashioned, but I think I am an anarchist.”

Jacques Tati