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The Warm Absurdity of Old vs New in Jacques Tati s Mon Oncle filmschoolrejects.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from filmschoolrejects.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. Consider a shot early in Mon Oncle, where the camera regards the outside of the building where Tati s character, Hulot, lives in a room on the roof. It seems at first to be two buildings, side by side, and Hulot enters the ground floor of one of them. But then, as he climbs upstairs, his body or legs or head or shoes are glimpsed through a series of windows, doors and passageways, revealing that the two buildings are linked. When he arrives finally at the top, he disappears, to emerge not where we expect him to but at the other side of the screen.