Anyone remember the “Huggetts”? Well I reckon Jacques Tati had a similar frolics in mind when he despatched “M. Hulot” on holiday just a few years after they had their own holiday camp experience. 
Unlike them, though, “Hulot has the seaside to serve as the foil for his dead-pan, slapstick, escapades as his arrival at a hitherto peaceful resort causes an equal measure of mayhem and havoc. Right from the outset in his glorified jalopy you just know that this has comedic disaster written all over it, and true to expectations that is what we get. His unique style of playing tennis raises murmurs a... leggi il resto.