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Playtime is French comic Jacques Tati’s crowning achievement. Tati’s familiar character Monsieur Hulot wanders through the scenes, but the movie’s primary subject is Paris’ modernity. The film captures the teeming humanity and the inhuman glass and steel architecture of public places – all given their due by the hapless yet comically graceful M. Hulot.
This article appears in May 14 • 2004.
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