Playtime -- What Makes This Movie Great? (Episode 95)

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Jacques Tati's fourth feature film is his masterpiece, in my view, the great 1967 movie Playtime. This video reviews and analyzes it. Playtime features Monseiur Hulot, Tati's bumbling fun character who appeared in previous films. Here he walks around modern Paris, a modern city filled with lots of traffic and modern architecture. The video argues that Playtime might be a criticism of the modern in general, plus tourists, and yet it has one of the great stretches of film ever, the restaurant scene, which means that Tati prefers joy and human absurdity to bitterness.
In places in this video, I had to use still images so that the corporation that owns the movie would not block it.
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