Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of ...

The reedy, pipe-smoking Mr. Hulot spends a week’s vacation at a slightly battered seaside hotel, where he battles inanimate objects and thinks—long and hard—about flirting with a pretty girl. Jacques ...

“Like all the great comics,” the film critic André Bazin once wrote of the late French actor-filmmaker Jacques Tati, “he creates a universe.” Just as Charlie Chaplin had the Little Tramp, Tati ...

During the Occupation of France in World War II, Jacques Tati lived for a time in the sleepy village of Saint-Sévère-sur-Indre in the Centre-Val de Loire region, known to tourists for its imposing ...