Mr. Hulot’s Holiday Excerpt 8: The ping-pong and the card players episode (2’56”)

Excerpt 8
 

 Questions

1.

Discuss the sound of the ping-pong ball. Is it normal? If not, why not?

2. What does Hulot represent for the other vacationers?
3.

Discuss his catalyst’s role here.

4.

What can we say about the young Marxist intellectual here—and the behavior of the young blond woman?