Playtime is a 1967 film by French director Jacques Tati. As a critique of modern urban life and comedy of personal pratfalls, it is unique and iconic, yet with echoes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. With the barest of story lines (one hapless wanderer encountering another for a few moments of cha…
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