Bridge Films
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Monsieur Hulot causes havoc wherever he goes, unintentionally and very funnily.
(Rowan Atkinson, the creator of Mr Bean, has a huge debt to Jacques Tati, although there is a
difference in that Monsieur Hulot is never mean-spirited and irritating.)
The action takes place in a seaside hotel in Brittany at a time when most families went to their summer holidays by train. Monsieur Hulot arrives and although unfailingly courteous always manages to make things go wrong around him, sometimes without him even noticing.
For the Bridge scene the viewer has to wait 27 minutes and 9 seconds. It's evening and in the lobby of the hotel where most of the guests are sitting at tables, reading books and playing cards. Monsieur Hulot is in an adjoining room about to disrupt the harmony unwittingly by playing a record of Hold That Tiger very loud, but before this happens we get to see a four around a table playing a trick-taking game with partners. The dialogue is strongly indicative of The Game, consisting as it does of words like "Ace", Sans Atout" (No Trumps), "Coeur" (Heart).
Why then no firm claim then that this is Bridge? Well, for a start the bidding dialogue is taking place while they are playing the cards and not before, also dummy is playing his own hand, and lastly the cards are being played anti-clockwise. It's not a game I know. I can only think of two reasons for this:
- The scenewriters intended it to be Bridge but knew shamefully little about it, or
- It is intentionally messed up à la Animal Crackers in line with the theme of the film that Monsieur Hulot's very presence causes things to go wrong.
Of the two reasons, my favourite is the second.
Summary
Bridge relevance 
There is Bridge being played ... sort of, for 41 seconds of the film.