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1967

Sight and Sound 2022: Critics' Poll — No. 23Sight and Sound 2022: Directors' Poll — No. 41

Director:

Jacques Tati

Studio:

Specta Films, Jolly Film

Starring:

Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek

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Monsieur Hulot tries to keep an appointment in a Paris of glass and steel office blocks, while a group of American tourists, among them a young woman named Barbara, see the city only through its modern buildings. Their paths cross through a trade fair and the chaotic opening night of a new restaurant.