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  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407065946
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Jacques Tati His Life & Art



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, 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.

  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407065946
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

About the author

David Bellos

David Bellos is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is well known for his many translations and for his biographies Georges Perec: A Life in Words and Jacques Tati. David Bellos was awarded the first Man Booker International Translator's Prize in 2005 for his translations of Ismail Kadare's novels.

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Praise for Jacques Tati His Life & Art

Elegantly written and illustrated, brilliantly illuminating about the work... This is a book of which Jacques Tati... would surely approve

Margot Norman, Literary Review

A handsome tribute to a comic creator whose craft was an art which turned a delight in human absurdity into the most accessible from of sanity

David Coward, Times Literary Supplement
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