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''The Man in the Hat'' is a semi-silent comedy film starring Creator/CiaranHinds in the titular role.

The story revolves around an enigmatic figure who journeys around France enjoying the sights, sounds and tastes of the country. He runs into a series of recurring characters, such as a perpetually damp man, an attractive woman on a bike and five shady-looking men.

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* {{Deuteragonist}}: The Damp Man has his own subplot independent of the main story. He contemplates suicide, but botches it and is talked out of trying again. Then he falls for a woman working at a restaurant and they make a life selling pizza from a food truck.
* FoodPorn: This is in France, so there are numerous shots of fine foods. The Man in the Hat spends a good portion of his time onscreen enjoying various dishes.
* LadyInRed: The Woman with the Bike wears a red dress, is very attractive, carries an air of mystery and is set up as a love interest.
* PinballProtagonist: The Man in the Hat doesn't make an impact on any part of the story, alternating between wandering from scene to scene and avoiding the attention of the five men.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: It turns out those five men who keep running into the Man in the Hat aren't a gang out to get him, but travelling musicians. Due to the lack of dialogue, the latter had no way of figuring this out.]]
* TheSilentBob: There's very little dialogue spoken between the recurring characters.

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