Top billed cast

1. 

   Jacques Tati

   Monsieur Hulot

2. 

   Jean-Pierre Zola

   Monsieur Arpel

3. 

   Adrienne Servantie

   Madame Arpel

4. 

   Lucien Frégis

   Monsieur Pichard

5. 

   Betty Schneider

   Betty, Landlord's Daughter

6. 

   Jean-François Martial

   Walter

7. 

   Dominique Marie

   Neighbor

8. 

   Yvonne Arnaud

   Georgette, the Housekeeper

9. 

   Adelaide Danieli

   Madame Pichard

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-05-31

Back in the day when it was very de rigueur to live in an home with all the mod cons we meet la famille “Arpel”. Monsieur (Jean-Pierre Zola) has a managerial job at a plastics factory and that’s keeping his slightly snobbish wife (Adrienne Servantie) in the style to which she has already become accustomed. In the nearby city lives her brother “Hulot” (Jacques Tati) whose home barely has plumbing and who is concerned that his young nephew “Gérard” (Alain Bécourt) isn’t living life to the full in his gilded cage of an home. Not unreasonably, his parents conclude that uncle migh...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• factory worker
• paris, france
• parent child relationship
• city portrait
• modernity
• new building
• brother-in-law
• suburb
• housekeeper
• sarcastic