PREVIEW - #730 - The Malaise of Modernity

Michael and Us by Michael and Us

Jul 16, 202600:03:01TV & Film

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 s...

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