CINE CLASSIQUE : Jacques TATI

Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), a (restored) film by Mônsieur Jâcques Tâti

30pm: participatory workshop on acting, led by Amandine Tonino (free and without registration) Holidays, as everyone knows, are not made for having fun.

Everyone knows it, except Monsieur Hulot who, with his pipe cocked and his fan-shaped silhouette, takes life as it comes, scandalously upsetting the summer calm of holidaymakers who settle into this small Atlantic coast seaside resort with their city habits, behind the wheel of his old, backfiring Salmson car.

He brings into the seaside boredom the wondering delight of sandcastles. And, all at once, boredom bursts out laughing, while the sandcastles open onto Sleeping Beauty and, at the cries of the children, the little beach crackles and gleams like Bastille Day... html