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35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille

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The Art Movement Is Always a Process

An art movement is always a process. And I think part of the sign that modernism hadn't finished is that this is a modernist film. It doesn't ultimately say that the project is wrong, which something made 10 years later would probably. Yeah. Well, should we say something about a sort of postscript to Tati's life? So there's a couple of them that... Well, the first thing is this film, like he spent tons of money on it and basically bankrupted himself. He kind of crippled the remainder of his career after this.

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