Mr Hulot occasionally visits his sister and her husband at their supermodern geometrical villa Arpel, equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Everything in this villa is perfectly functional, except when Hulot visits. To his rich and successful parents’ immense horror, Hulot’s nine-year-old nephew perceives his uncle as a role model. This entertaining timeless picture about the modern-day obsession with technological progress to the expense of simple joys in life has won an Oscar for best foreign language films and has remained by this day Tati’s most famous work, primarily because of its idiosyncratic humour and reference to children and eccentrics as the only ones capable of relishing the joys of life unburdened.