Jacques Tati His Life & Art
Sep 2010 · Random House
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Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakeable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of sheer 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 Fete and Mon Oncle, to Playtime, the grandiose masterpiece that left the once delebrated 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.
About the author
David Bellos is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton where he also chairs the Department of French and Italian. He won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie for Georges Perec: A Life In Words. He also won the IBM-France prize for his translation of Perec's Life A User's Manual. He has translated W or The Memory of Childhood, Things: A Sotry of the Sixties and "53 Days", all major works by Georges Perec, as well as several works by the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.
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