tativille

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.

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> 𝛼-60: Do you know what illuminates the night?
> Lemmy Caution: #Poetry.

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#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

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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.

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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”.

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