Well, all the Tati films I've seen make me nostalgic for the past. This one, in particular, has a timeless sense of what it is like to enjoy childhood summers without a care in the world. After seeing it more, there's a definite subtext, but I still cannot get over the beauty of the "have fun" atmosphere this film emits.
My favorites are the painting the boat, tennis, and the hotel sequences! Genius.
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I got sad. And i am born twenty years after this movie came out.
share@ ASANISMASA - I know exactly what you mean... it really is a beautiful film in so many senses...it gets better with each viewing...I am also nostalgic for certain things of the past...but I am unfortunately too aware that we always paint the past more beautifully than it actually was... that is even sadder :(
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Re the '"have fun" atmosphere'. I think there was that atmosphere, and that was also the message of the film--"have fun" and don't let business and other concerns interfere with that. And that's what Mr. Hulot teaches the other people at the hotel.
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I did a little, even though I was born a quarter-century after it came out. Life now seems more rushed, more complicated, more stressful. But then, life in the 1950s wasn't a picnic for a lot of people either.
shareOne of the saddest things for me is seeing that they replaced that charming, smallish Victorian house that Martine lived in.
On that score, i can't help wondering if they uprooted and moved it somewhere else, and wishing that they did. But I don't think they did that sort of thing over there, although I've actually seen whole houses being moved in the US.
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Just as an addendum--It looks to me, from Google Earth Street View, that the streets around that house were too narrow to move the house on a flatbed truck.
See example: http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/13935098-95/art-studio-on-the-move- in-boscawen
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The turreted house never was there! It's actually a set facade built for the beach scene mood Tati wanted (as was the postcard concession next door & the false exterior entrance to the hotel).
Details of this were on a french commentary extra feature on the DVD release I saw.
"The Illusionist" par excellence! :)
Thanks very much. Would that be on the restored version DVD? Was it a running commentary or featurette?
I've suspected the postcards were props, and not genuine postcards on the market, as I could not locate any of them among vintage French postcards.
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The restored DVD. It was a featurette either with this DVD (an Extra) OR info contained in another featurette I watched "The Magnificent Tati" (long enough to be it's own DVD ) I think which was part of a (3 set) package of discs with the "Parade" DVD.
I'm sorry I cannot check exactly for you as they were borrowed to watch from a local film library and not my own.
Thanks very much.
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