Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

 

                        Mr. Hulot's Holiday 

 

You may have the money but you may not be able to go back in time. The year is 1953, the location - a bourgeois seaside resort. It’s a modern world and the modern world has its own crisis when it comes to Identity and Individualism. In a so called orderly world – enters Mr. Holot – an old world of gentleness, innocence, calm  and charm, perceived to be bumbling around the environment 

 The movie opens with a Jazz melody by Alain Romans -- Quel Temps Fait-Il A Paris (How is the weather in Paris) and the same piece goes on and on throughout the movie.

 It’s a work of art. One needs to be observant and so it is recommended to watch this work back to back at least twice. Chances are one might miss something or the other. After watching this movie you start noticing things happening around you.

 

Hulot films have been a great influence on Jerry Lewis and the Mr. Bean’s series.

 

One takeaway from the film is that it teaches you not to hurry in the journey of life.

After the movie one feels sad that the wonderful world is over. It was another time, another place. It's time for another repeat.  A time to go back to another bygone era.

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It's a narrative on many things lost. 

Life can be lived like wine – sip it, don’t gulp it.

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If you have been raised with Hollywood or Bollywood, it is highly recommended to skip this Movie.

One feels sad when the movie is over.

 

The film is not a comedy.  One gets to observe the sheer absurdity of the human condition.

 

Mr Hulot seems to be saying, "Hey, folks, slow down, what's the rush and what's the point--there's more to life than status, fads, trends, twinkle and glitter. Let's be more natural, more relaxed, more caring.

 

Francisco Goya – Saturn Devouring His Son

 

 

Francisco Goya born 1746, died 1828 {aged 82 years} was a Spanish painter. Out of his 14 Black Paintings, Saturn devouring his son stands out. 

 

 

The painting illustrates Saturn eating his sons one by one upon their birth after a prophecy that one of his sons will overthrow him, just as he had overthrown his father.  To prevent this prophecy from coming true, Saturn commences to eat his children moments after each one was born. His third son Jupiter was hidden by his wife on the Greek island of Crete. She misleads Saturn by offering a stone wrapped in a blanket instead of Jupiter. Just as the prophecy had predicted - Saturn was eventually displaced by Jupiter.

 

Goya never took the pain in explaining the meaning of the painting.

 

Experts have interpreted the meaning of the painting as follows:

 

1.Time consumes everything.

2.The anger of God.

3.The clash between old age and youth.

4.The strife leading to political and social issues in Spain during that time when the country obliterates it own citizens during war and revolution.

 

Goya could have been motivated by Peter Paul Rubens {1577-1640} a Flemish Painter.

 Rubens’ painting Saturn or Saturn Devouring His Son was painted in 1636. The Painting is seen as less cannibalistic when compared to Goya’s Painting.

Mr Samuel Beckett, We're all waiting !

|::| The futility of existence is depicted quite appropriately in the Two-Act play by Samuel Beckett.

|::| Waiting, passing time, moments lost, endless days are major themes where ‘Nothing Ever Happens’.

|::| Guess a mind should know now that this refers to ‘Waiting For Godot’, first premiered on 5^th Jan.  1953.

|::| Watching the video version {text practically followed without any modification} directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg (2001) while reading the play simultaneously is highly recommended.

|::| One can’t watch or read this work casually

|::| Sometimes it makes a mind wonder whether those two were ‘Waiting For Godot’, or ‘Waiting For God’ or ‘Waiting For Hope’!

Miloš Forman

Completed Milos Forman Films :

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968  {Source : Wikipedia}

(1964) - Black Peter

(1965) - Lásky Jedné Plavovlásky AKA The Loves of a Blonde

(1967) - The Firemen's Ball

(1971) - Taking Off

(1973) - Visions Of Eight (1973) + 7 Others

(1975) - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

(1979) - Hair

(1981) - Ragtime

(1984) - Amadeus (Directors Cut)

(1989) - Valmont

(1996) - The People vs Larry Flynt

(1999) - Man On The Moon

 
Miloš Forman