Notice the comedy of the built world
by Jacques Tati, 1967
Glass, geometry and gags. A film that makes you look harder.
8 October 2026

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Jacques Tati drops his bumbling Monsieur Hulot into a gleaming modernist Paris of glass walls and confusing lobbies, and lets the jokes emerge from architecture. There is no central story, only a hundred small details happening at once across the frame. It rewards rewatching because you can never catch everything. Try it on the biggest screen you have.

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