The 7th BJIFF
Runtime: 116’
Age:1958
Director: Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servanti
France, Italy
French
Sub: Chinese, English
Mr. and Mrs. Arpel live in a remarkably modern house in a bland, clean neighborhood. In this excessively controlled universe there is no room for play, chance or humor, and their son Ge?rard is bored. However, the calm is broken with the sudden eruption of his eccentric misfit uncle, Monsieur Hulot, Madame Arpel’s brother. His family and entourage resent his whimsicality, especially as he becomes a role model for Ge?rard...