CHRIS SULLIVAN

Oh la la – ‘tres amusant’ indeed

8th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

I’ve always been utterly disdainful of slapstick, pratfalls and silent movie comedies but, will admit, that the Gallic director/star Jacques Tati (France’s main purveyor of such) had me chuckling like good ‘un with, Mon Oncle (1958). As his alter ego, the well meaning, but enormously accident prone, M. Hulot, Tati visits his relatives the Arpels and their incredibly chic friends. Ensconced in Paris, the rather bourgeois family are everything that...

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