Culturefly At The BFI: A Tribute To Jacques Tati — culturefly.co.uk

Much like Charlie Chaplin, one of his key inspirations, Jacques Tati was one of a kind. While most filmmakers sought to use the cinematic medium as a platform to tell stories, Tati used it as a hide from which he could observe real life. Unlike the highly popular Nouvelle Vague movement though, which had recently swept across the landscape of French Cinema, Tati wasn’t interested in addressing the social and political upheavals of the day. Instead, it was the absurd aspects of France’s (and in-turn the rest of the Western World’s) progressive society that inspired his visually driven films.

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