Selected by Caitlin Manocchio (Specialist, Education)  

Jacques Tati’s second feature film as a writer-director-star introduced his iconic character, Monsieur Hulot, in a classic slapstick farce. The clueless Hulot sets out for a simple seaside vacation only to encounter obstacles big and small, with Tati staging memorable comedic set pieces with understated elegance. Critic André Bazin called it “the most important comic work in world cinema since the Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields.” Tati and Henri Marquet were nominated for Writing (Story and Screenplay) in 1955. 

DIRECTOR: Jacques Tati. WRITTEN BY: Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet. CAST: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Michèle Rolla, Valentine Camax. 1953. 88 min. France. B&W. French. DCP 

Family Matinees in August present films chosen by Academy Museum staff. 

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

Make It Dinner and a Movie

Fanny's Restaurant & Café

All guests who present a ticket for a film screening, Tuesday through Saturday (and the first Sunday of every month), receive 10% off all food and non-alcoholic beverages at Fanny's. Discount only applicable on the same day as the screening and cannot be redeemed for another screening or date. Dinner reservations can be made on OpenTable or Resy.