Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
The origin of Monsieur Hulot, vacationing in a small beach hotel, failing to attract the attention of Martine. She is pushed towards that intellectual twit, but rebuffs him too. That love triangle is a pure sideshow, the star as the many very funny visual gags.
As for whoever said Mr Bean’s Holidays was a remake of this, not sure what were smoking. Not Hulot’s pipe, that’s for sure.
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This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.