Ogunquit News
OPA Classic Film Series continues with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"
"Mr. Hulot's Holiday," Jacques Tati's 1953 French film, will be shown at the Dunaway Center on School Street in Ogunquit next Wednesday, March 14, at 7 p.m.
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The film will be shown Wednesday evening, March 14, at 7 p.m., and there will be pre- and post-video discussions led by Norman Wilkinson of Ogunquit Performing Arts.
The movie tells the story of Mr. Hulot's holiday by the sea in Brittany. Mr. Hulot, played by Jacques Tati, is a well-intentioned nitwit who gets involved in one hilarious incident after another.
He meets an intimidating dog, collapses his boat and accidentally sets off a massive fireworks display.
He also falls in love with an attractive young lady, but every well-meaning gesture ends in disaster.
It is a 1953 French film with hardly any words in it. It plays as a silent film with music - a lilting, repetitive melody - and lot of sound effects and half-heard voices.
Tati was a silent clown and he worked as a mime as a young man.
Tati, who lived from 1908 to 1982, made only four more features in the next 20 years after "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" that were also much admired, but this is the film for which he will be remembered.
Don't miss "Mr. Hulot's Holiday," the seventh in this year's Classic Film Series at the Dunaway Center, 23 School St., Ogunquit.
There is plenty of free parking and admission is free.
