Tati's approach to his main character

This is a quotation from an article by Elliot Stein in the Village Voice (31/12/69).  Stein points out that Tati create an imaginary world as a defense against the less than humane "real world".

Tati's signature comic character ambled into movies with Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), his second film. Tall, awkward, blank-faced Hulot is an endearingly clumsy everyman whose incompetence is preferable to the inhuman competence of the modern world.