#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 31: Spot the #Eiffel Tower on #EiffelTowerDay

Never was or will I be a fan of Jacques #Tati, the loveable Luddite who wouldn't be as big as he became if it wasn't for the technological wonders of the 20th century. Having said that, his #Playtime (1967) holds a special place in my heart. Tati's alter ego Monsieur #Hulot roams a hyper-modern #Paris, actually an enormous soundstage dubbed #Tativille. People, buildings and gadgets interact with and against each other, each and everyone as plotless as a prop. In unison, it becomes a perfectly orchestrated symphony of maddening modernism. But Tati wouldn't be Tati if it wasn't for a glimpse of quiet nostalgia. A woman holding the glass-and-steel entrance door of yet another concrete office building. In the glass, a burst of warm light and colour and movement. And then it's gone, and we remember how that tower once was the thorn in the Luddite's eye, that “baroque and mercantile fancy of a builder of machines”.

#film #cinema #JacquesTati #MonsieurHulot #TourEiffel #EiffelTower #Paris #architecture #MonsieurHulot #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 31: Spot the #Eiffel Tower on #EiffelTowerDay

Never was or will I be a fan of Jacques #Tati, the loveable Luddite who wouldn't be as big as he became if it wasn't for the technological wonders of the 20th century. Having said that, his #Playtime (1967) holds a special place in my heart. Tati's alter ego Monsieur #Hulot roams a hyper-modern #Paris, actually an enormous soundstage dubbed #Tativille. People, buildings and gadgets interact with and against each other, each and everyone as plotless as a prop. In unison, it becomes a perfectly orchestrated symphony of maddening modernism. But Tati wouldn't be Tati if it wasn't for a glimpse of quiet nostalgia. A woman holding the glass-and-steel entrance door of a yet another concrete office building. In the glass, a burst of warm light and colour and movement. And then it's gone, and we remember how that tower once was the thorn in the Luddite's eye, that “baroque and mercantile fancy of a builder of machines”.

#film #cinema #JacquesTati #MonsieurHulot #TourEiffel #EiffelTower #Paris #architecture #MonsieurHulot #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

Looking for the illustrator of this cover. It's the Dutch edition of the novel by J-C Carrière but inside it mentions 'all illustrations by Pierre Etaix'. This does not look like an Etaix drawing to me, at all. (the ones inside yes) Anyone have a clue? Publisher De Fontein, Utrecht..

#books #jacquestati #mrhulot #illustration #JeanClaudeCarriere #novel #pipe #monsieurhulot

Saint-Marc-sur-Mer, 2006
Rob #Merho
(geplaatst met zijn toestemming)

Merk op dat de pijp van Tati was afgerukt.

#jacquestati #movieset #saintmarcsurmer #france #lamer #beaches #monsieurhulot #lesvacancesdemonsieurhulot #mrhulotsholiday #cinema

Monsieur Hulot, by Vittorio Giardino.
One of Italy’s most celebrated comics artists.

#jacquestati #illustration #artist #atomium #brussels #belgium #monsieurhulot #vittoriogiardino #art