Monsieur Hulot (English spelling)

... He was a music hall entertainer who started out in pantomime sports, and made his film debut with The Good-Looking Man (1947), about a village postman who fails to imitate the postman in an American film. He wrote, directed, and starred in five full-length comedies. His second film, My Uncle's Holiday (1952), and subsequent films featured the protagonist Monsieur Hulot, a tall, vagabond man in short trousers, a pipe and an umbrella, and his associates performing "elegant" sight gags that were not as intense as Spastic's. His third film, My Uncle (1958), was his signature work, and he was called the "French Chaplin" for its gentle satire of mechanical civilization and for the fact that Mr. Hulot himself hardly spoke at all. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　ミュージック･ホールの芸人で，スポーツ形態模写のパントマイムから映画入りし，村の郵便配達人がアメリカ映画の郵便配達をまねて失敗するという《のんき大将脱線の巻》(1947)を皮切りに，脚本，演出，主演を兼ねた長篇喜劇5本を作った。第2作《ぼくの伯父さんの休暇》(1952)以降の作品は，長身に寸たらずのズボン，パイプにこうもり傘といういでたちの，風来坊型の主人公ユロ氏Monsieur Hulotとその周辺の人々が，スプスティックほど激しくはない〈優雅な〉視覚（サイト）ギャグを演ずるという内容で，数々の賞を受けた。第3作《ぼくの伯父さん》(1958)が代表作で，機械文明をやんわり皮肉った笑いや，ユロ氏自身がほとんど口をきかないことなどから〈フランスのチャップリン〉とも呼ばれた。…

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