Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
When he has to contact an American official in the French capital, Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He gets lost in the city’s maze of modern architecture, and roams around with some American tourists, ending up causing a lot of chaos.
When he has to contact an American official in the French capital, Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He gets lost in the city’s maze of modern architecture, and roams around with some American tourists, ending up causing a lot of chaos.
With its majestic set (called Tativille!) and its meticulous work on the acoustics of modern life, Jacques Tati’s Playtime is a masterpiece of slapstick, but also an astute criticism of consumer society and the asepticism of urban landscapes in the era of globalization.