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Ari Aster Selects
April 14 - 20, 2023
Jacques Tati’s follow-up to films featuring his beloved Monsieur Hulot character was a supremely democratic film starring “everybody,” in which the wonders of modern life relinquish their functionality and become a ravishingly beautiful backdrop to pure human delirium.
After the success of Mon Oncle in 1958, Jacques Tati became fed up with his signature Monsieur Hulot character. Slowly, he inched his way toward a new kind of cinema—a supremely democratic film starring “everybody,” in which the wonders of modern life would relinquish their functionality and become a ravishingly beautiful backdrop to pure human delirium. Playtime’s massive set, known as Tativille, was built in Saint-Maurice, in the southeast corner of Paris, complete with its own power plant and approach road and two entire buildings whose amenities included a working escalator. At the end of the road, there lay ignominy and bankruptcy—and one of the great masterpieces of postwar French cinema.
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