On its release in the United States , Bosley Crowther 's review said that the film contained " much the same visual satire that we used to get in the ' silent ' days from the pictures of Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton , and such as those . " He said the film " exploded with merriment " and that Tati " is a long-legged , slightly pop-eyed gent whose talent for caricaturing the manners of human beings is robust and intense ... . There is really no story to the picture ... . The dialogue ... is at a minimum , and it is used just to satirize the silly and pointless things that summer people say . Sounds of all sorts become firecrackers , tossed in for comical point . " Tati biographer David Bellos has described the film as " Sublime , " and said that , " It was through this film that I first fell in love with France . I think that is true of a lot of people . " The journalist Simon O'Hagan , writing on the occasion of the film 's 50th anniversary in 2003 , wrote that the film , " might contain the greatest collection of sight gags ever committed to celluloid , but it is the context in which they are placed and the atmosphere of the film that lift it into another realm . The central character is an unforgettable amalgam of bafflement at the modern world , eagerness to please and just the right amount of eccentricity - i.e. not too much - his every effort to fit in during his seaside holiday merely succeeds in creating chaos out of orderliness . Puncturing the veneer of the comfortably off at play is by no means the least of Tati 's concerns . But , there is an elegiac quality too , the sense that what Tati finds funny he also cherishes . " The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot