The Complete Jacques Tati (Criterion Collection) - DVD
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- Genre: Comedy
- Description: Though he made only a handful of films, director, writer, and actor Jacques Tati ranks among the most beloved of all cinematic geniuses. With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever more ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art. In the surrogate character of the sweet and bumbling, eternally umbrella-toting and pipe smoking Monsieur Hulot, Tati invented a charming symbol of humanity lost in a constantly modernizing modern age. This set gathers his six hilarious features - Jour de fete, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Monocle, PlayTime, Trafic, and Parade - along with seven delightful Tati-related short films.
- Title: The Complete Jacques Tati (Criterion Collection)
- Format: DVD
- MPAA Rating: NR (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 08/12/2014
- Genre: Comedy
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- Product Name: The Complete Jacques Tati (Criterion Collection) - DVD
- UPC: 715515128414
Though he made only a handful of films, director, writer, and actor Jacques Tati ranks among the most beloved of all cinematic geniuses. With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever more ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art. In the surrogate character of the sweet and bumbling, eternally umbrella-toting and pipe smoking Monsieur Hulot, Tati invented a charming symbol of humanity lost in a constantly modernizing modern age. This set gathers his six hilarious features - Jour de fete, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Monocle, PlayTime, Trafic, and Parade - along with seven delightful Tati-related short films.
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Though he made only a handful of films, director, writer, and actor Jacques Tati ranks among the most beloved of all cinematic geniuses. With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever more ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art. In the surrogate character of the sweet and bumbling, eternally umbrella-toting and pipe smoking Monsieur Hulot, Tati invented a charming symbol of humanity lost in a constantly modernizing modern age. This set gathers his six hilarious features - Jour de fete, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Monocle, PlayTime, Trafic, and Parade - along with seven delightful Tati-related short films.
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