anguage and that language is just another
             sound on the landscape, no more communicative or necessary for
             communication than the sputtering of the car he drives to the beach or the
             roar of the car that shoots past him.
             Jacques Tati is clearly an heir to the great silent comedians, and he
             moves through his films with the same surety of gait and elastic mode of
             behavior as Chaplin or Keaton before. Brent Maddock says of Tati,
             Tati hoods an odd place in the critic=s view of the film world.
             He is, at the same time, both the most contemporary of
             filmmakers, dealing with subject matter that could only be found
             at this juncture of history, and the most classic of filmmakers,
             using a technical style and filmic structure closer to early
             silent comedies (Maddock 2).
             Mr. Hulot=s Vacation (or Mr. Hulot=s Holiday in the British and American
             version, partly because of the British use of that word, and partly because
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