Jacques Tati’s “Playtime” is a playful visual treatise on modernity portraying the innate incompatibility between human nature and the Modernist expectations of behavior in space. Almost completely devoid of dialogue, shot on a massive set located near Paris known as Tativille, the film dissects Modernist architecture through one of its epitomes: the office building.
#architecture #jacquestati #modernity #spaces #offices #buildings #tativille
One of #PlayTime's special (cardboard like) settings;
#Tativille, it was the city #JacquesTati needed to continue to explore his idea of the modern city, and, in order to get the shot that he required, the office blocks were in fact on wheels and tracks and could be moved at will.
> 𝛼-60: Do you know what illuminates the night?
> Lemmy Caution: #Poetry.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 16: #AI on #ArtificialIntelligenceAppreciationDay
#Godard's #Alphaville (1965) bears similarities with #Cocteau's Orphée (1950), transported to a mirror world of sorts. It also foreshadows not only our time, but also M Hulot's, whose #Tativille could be a simulacra of 𝛼-60's simulated, dehumanised world ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/alphaville-une-etrange-aventure-de-lemmy-caution-1965
Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina) and Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine). Lights reflected in the windowpane that shields the two characters suggest “the existence of an obscure reality” (after Baudrillard↗). #Bales2023FilmChallenge July 16: Artificial Intelligence on #Ar...
One of PlayTime's special (cardboard like) settings;
Tativille, it was the city Jacques Tati needed to continue to explore his idea of the modern city, and, in order to get the shot that he required, the office blocks were in fact on wheels and tracks and could be moved at will.
#jacquestati #playtime #tativille #onset #cinema #france #hulot #set #modernity #film #buildings #city
#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 31: Spot the #Eiffel Tower on #EiffelTowerDay
Never was or will I be a fan of Jacques #Tati, the loveable Luddite who wouldn't be as big as he became if it wasn't for the technological wonders of the 20th century. Having said that, his #Playtime (1967) holds a special place in my heart. Tati's alter ego Monsieur #Hulot roams a hyper-modern #Paris, actually an enormous soundstage dubbed #Tativille. People, buildings and gadgets interact with and against each other, each and everyone as plotless as a prop. In unison, it becomes a perfectly orchestrated symphony of maddening modernism. But Tati wouldn't be Tati if it wasn't for a glimpse of quiet nostalgia. A woman holding the glass-and-steel entrance door of yet another concrete office building. In the glass, a burst of warm light and colour and movement. And then it's gone, and we remember how that tower once was the thorn in the Luddite's eye, that “baroque and mercantile fancy of a builder of machines”.
#film #cinema #JacquesTati #MonsieurHulot #TourEiffel #EiffelTower #Paris #architecture #MonsieurHulot #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
The kids in the Fediverse are playing a game. Find the rules at the clubhouse and play along! Coming up in April: 21 Fiddler Playing in Movie 22 Lots of Rain in Movie 23 Scene in a Laboratory 24 Someone Screaming in Movie 25 License Plate Seen in Movie 26 Main Actor/Actress is Australian 27 Morse Code Heard in Movie 28 Comedy You Can Watch With Kids 29 Someone Looking Through a Telescope 30 Someone with a Wild Hairdo
One of PlayTime's special (cardboard like) settings;
Tativille, it was the city Jacques Tati needed to continue to explore his idea of the modern city, and, in order to get the shot that he required, the office blocks were in fact on wheels and tracks and could be moved at will.
#jacquestati #playtime #tativille #onset #cinema #france #hulot #set #modernity #film #buildings #city
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