Michael and Us
Michael and Us
Luke Savage and Will Sloan
PREVIEW - #730 - The Malaise of Modernity
3 minutes Posted Jul 16, 2026 at 10:37 pm.
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Jacques Tati rebuilt Paris from the ground up - and bankrupted himself in the process - to make his masterpiece PLAYTIME (1967), a gentle satire of ultra-modern postwar France that has a certain affection for what it's satirizing. We discuss the film that couldn't quite kill Monsieur Hulot.
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