Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- factory worker
- paris
- france
- parent child relationship
- city portrait
- modernity
- new building
- brother-in-law
- suburb
- housekeeper
- sarcastic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot
Jean-Pierre Zola
Monsieur Arpel
Adrienne Servantie
Madame Arpel
Lucien Frégis
Monsieur Pichard
- Betty Schneider — Betty, Landlord's Daughter
- Jean-François Martial — Walter
- Dominique Marie — Neighbor
- Yvonne Arnaud — Georgette, the Housekeeper
- Adelaide Danieli — Madame Pichard
- Alain Bécourt — Gérald Arpel
- Régis Fontenay — Braces Dealer
- Claude Badolle — Ragman
- Max Martel — Drunken Man
- Nicolas Bataille — Working Man
- Pierre Étaix — Delivery man / Telegraph operator (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jacques Tati
- Written
- Jean L'Hôte, Jacques Lagrange, Jacques Tati
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 623 ratings
- Studio
- Gaumont Distribution, Specta Films, Alter Films, Film del Centauro, Cady Films, gray-film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
