Tati and Rhum de Medrano (he was, like many an aspirational French performer, usually known only by his first name) are a couple of down and outs who rent a bizarre open motor coach one Sunday, with a scheme to make money by motoring out to the country and offering unwary tourists rides to "the castle" with lunch included.
Although the jokes in here will come as no surprise to any fan of comedy, what will surprise many -- if they have not seen Tati's work -- is their pacing. French farce is as fast-paced as any other, and to watch classic gags done at Tati's slow, off-handed, mildly fuddled pace, is .... well, I want to say a revelation, but Tati's work never struck me as particularly comic, but more as nostalgic for an era when people put up with his self-absorbed character as they went along their self-focused lives.
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