Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful and purely premeditated look at modern times...

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

Cast & crew

Jacques Tati

Director

Jacques Tati

Monsieur Hulot

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Jean-Pierre Zola

Monsieur Arpel

Adrienne Servantie

Madame Arpel

Lucien Frégis

Monsieur Pichard

Betty Schneider

Betty, Landlord's Daughter

Jean-François Martial

Walter

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Dominique Marie

Neighbor

Yvonne Arnaud

Georgette, the Housekeeper

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Adelaide Danieli

Madame Pichard

Alain Bécourt

Gérald Arpel

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Régis Fontenay

Braces Dealer

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Claude Badolle

Ragman

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Max Martel

Drunken Man

Nicolas Bataille

Working Man

Pierre Étaix

Delivery man / Telegraph operator (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Rémoleux

Client in Monsieur Arpel's Factory (uncredited)

Denise Péronne

Mademoiselle Fevrier (uncredited)

Nicole Regnault

Short-sighted motorist (uncredited)

Édouard Francomme

House Painter (uncredited)

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André Dino

Sweeper (uncredited)