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Jacques Tati
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The full story of one of France’s greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati’s rise and fall, from his earliest beginnings as a music hall mime during the Depression, to the success of Jour de Fête and Mon Oncle, to Playtime, the grandiose masterpiece that left the once celebrated director bankrupt and begging for equipment to complete his final films. Analysing Tati’s singular vision, Bellos reveals the intricate staging of his most famous gags and draws upon hitherto inaccessible archives to produce a unique assessment of his work and its context for film lovers and film students alike.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.277 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.3 × 13 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 400 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2001-9-20 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1860469248 |
| About The Author | David Bellos is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton where he is also director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. He won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie for George Perec: A Life in Words. He also won the IBM-France prize for his translated W or The Memory of Childhood, Things: A Story of the Sixties and 53 Days, all major works by George Perec. In 2005 he won the Man Booker International translator’s award for his translations of several works by the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare. |
| Review Quote | [An] outstanding filmmaker biography… Deconstructs the French comedian-auteur as if he were an intricate human clock mechanism, which in some ways he was |
| Other text | The best of the year’s biographies…David Bellos examines with perception and style how the creator of Monsieur Hulot staked a legitimate claim in a rapidly changing medium to the mantle once worn by Chaplin and Keaton |
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