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Jacques Tati - no wonder!

posted 13 years ago by rasmussed001
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Aloha!

I got this film thru Netflix and only knew that it had the same animation crew as "Tripletts of Bellville" - which I loved.

As I started watching it the main character started looking awfully familiar - as in the great French comic Jacques Tati (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, etc.) - so when I ended up here on ImdB I found out that it was based on his well loved character and that he actually wrote the screenplay!

What a great surprise! This was a great film in my opinion and the fact that I could "see" Jacques Tati in the character (who actually uses Monsieur Tati's real name) was even better!

I don't care for animation in general, but this film is as much for adults and people who love good films as animation lovers!

Just my thoughts!

[–] Devans00 12 years ago

I like The Illusionist a lot better than the Tripletts of Bellville. I think it was because of the character of Jacques Tatischeff. He has a sort of Chaplin flavor who I'm very familiar with and like.

Because of this animation, I'm looking up some of Jacques Tati's movies to see the live action version of Jacques. Since I've seen the cartoon version.

I also liked the character of the girl. At first she annoyed me, glomming on to the magician and making him pay her way. By the time she met the handsome young man, I could appreciate her better. I'm still torn about how she changed Jacques relationship to Magic. Good and bad.

No two persons ever watch the same movie.

[–] ChazzJazz 11 years ago

you have to be kidding me; the girl was a materialist brat.

Although she was innocent about it and not really aware of the consumer system.

http://myimpressionz.tk

[–] Rosabel 10 years ago

The girl was really very innocent, and unaware of having an effect on anybody. I thought it was interesting how her stay with the magician sort of coincided with a kind of "Indian summer" for him and the other performers staying in the hotel. For a short time they had work and were busy and happy. Even the clown managed to survive, due to her unwitting intervention and act of kindness.

But Indian summer is always a temporary interlude, before winter closes in. I'm sure it's no coincidence that her "growing up" - turning into a young lady and falling in love with the young man - marked the end of the road for the performers. She didn't cause the downfall of their careers, but her departure - emotional if not physical - marked the ending of the life they'd known. Just the way the birds fly away in the fall - and the last scene in the hotel room she'd lived in showed the shadow of the book pages fluttering, like birds' wings flying away.

Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!

[–] RbSnedlap 11 years ago

It was rather fun when he accidently walked into `The Cameo` cinema (which is a real cinema) and they were playing "Mon Oncle" on screen.

"Any plan that involves losing your hat is a BAD plan.""