“Play Time is French director Jacques Tati’s fourth major film. Tati wanted the film to be in color but look like it was filmed in black and white.”.

“In Tati’s world, machines are confounding; yet, they are ever-present.
Tati has seen how this technology has opened up the world by granting more possibilities to all, and to reflect that, he has constructed office buildings with walls made entirely of glass and corridors that appear to go on forever.

He knows it’s a double-edged sword, however: while the glass opens things up, it also pushes us farther apart. Of course, living in Tati’s world isn’t all bad.
Regardless of how much our creations fail us, humans don’t buckle under, we endure.”.
(Jamie S. Rich)

Above: Jacques Tati (sitting on the left) as Monsieur Hulot in the offices sequence.

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“The story tells of a single woman who buys in a supermarket a man labeled “sweet”. The attitude of the man seems strange and, after having unsuccessfully courted him, she discovers that he has expired. Returned to the store as defective product, the man will be recycled in the third world.”.

Strane storie (Strange stories; Sandro Baldoni, 1994). With Ivano Marescotti and Silvia Cohen.

Above: Ivano Marescotti as the sweet man on sale.

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- “What are you doing on the outside?” - “I was a DJ.” - “What?”

Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986). With Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni.
“The story of three different men in a Louisiana prison and their eventual journey.”.

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Signs. A short film about communication. By Patrick Hughes.

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“I don’t speak with economists never it’s a waste of time I will do an exception for you because you seem a bad economist.”.

Concursante (The Contestant, 2007). A movie by Rodrigo Cortes.
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