a French holiday

Holidays By The Sea is a whimsical farce from French director, Pascal Rabaté. With no dialogue to speak of it pays homage to Jacques Tati and in particular his character, Mr. Hulot. Rabaté uses his experience in graphic novels to play with shot composition and to fashion hilarious sight gags. Some of the faces are familiar [Dominique Pinon for one]; the music and the seaside setting are very French but this film will please even those who dread subtitles; they are few and far between.