Word: tati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uncle (Continental). Jacques Tati is a French comedian whose big feet, small head, great height and bolted rigidity invest him, as he jerks and jolts and fidgets through his films, with the marvelously absurd demeanor of an Eiffel Tower out for a Sunday stroll. But from his solitary eminence, Moviemaker Tati (Jour de Fête, Mr. Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used...
When you saw Hulot's Holiday, you got belly-laughs from Tati's portrayal of the Hulot personality. The whole responsibility of making the situations comic was his. But when you see My Uncle, the comedian Tati is solidly supported by script-writer Tati, and expertly guided by the director, also Tati. This makes for more humor, and subtler, and for a more acceptable cinematic whole...
...preposterous unintentional grips with post-war prosperity, the modern source of the bourgeoisie that the French have ridiculed for a hundred years. And his skill for satire, apparent on only a personal level before, is strengthened by the theme and enhanced by his fuller control of the production. Tati's broadside satire of the modern scene is sharp, and cuts particularly deep since in America there don't seem to be even any shabby unsuccessful humanists left for a comparison--everybody is like Hulot's ludicrous in-laws. But you're laughing so much that you don't feel...
...Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...
This season Liebman imported some of his top stars from abroad, notably Britain's Jean Carson and France's Jacques Tati and Jeanmaire. He hopes to get Imogene Coca back under his wing for a production of Happy Birthday, and is looking for a vehicle for Sid Caesar...