Playtime

Pros: Timeless Tati perspectives, physical humor, and antics; beautifully shot; incredible sets
Cons: Long for a film with no plot; sort of peters out in the end

Playtime was the fourth feature film of Jacques Tati (1908-1982) and is sometimes considered his masterpiece. We have to be grateful to the man for what he sacrificed in bringing this film to fruition, but is it a masterpiece? Historical ...

Pros: Sublime filmmaking
Cons: nothing to mention

In Playtime, world class French filmmaker Jacques Tati satirizes the oppressive, inglorious architecture that is heaped upon mankind by Modern Age thinking and makes human contact so difficult. At the same time though, Tati recognizes that quality of the...