Summer Time: Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

France is in the middle of the month of its deepest summer slumber. The juilletistes are back from their summer vacations but the aoûtiens are still enjoying theirs, and with them many of the businesses outside major cities and those who don't rely on tourists. Much of the country – and certainly everywhere near the water or the scenic hot spots – will appear to be running at half speed if at all, until La Rentrée kicks in at the beginning of September. It's a tradition going all the way back to the Middle Ages, when Pope Gregory IX gave...