@deanduncan63Saw Etaix’s #AsLongasYouveGotYourHealth. What a time capsule! Sharp satire/parody of things (Hammer horrors …
… a certain approach to advertising, or pollution) that have changed a lot. The last episode is more timeless, or classic maybe …
… It actually evokes Renoir’s Rules of the Game, & doesn’t suffer in the comparison. Not many films could claim as much!
#AsLongasYouveGotYourHealth. In fact, that last episode is literally, comically perfect.
#AsLongasYouveGotYourHealth suffers wonderfully from the old Jacques Tati fallacy, which is that the furious critic of modernity …
… and Modernism is, at the same time, a textbook modernist. Thank goodness, in both cases!
#AsLongasYouveGotYourHealth. Etaix is now in Godardian mode, w’ big swaths of Chaplin’s A King in New York. It even anticipates …
… Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir. My intertextual mind may annoy, but the thing is that this guy urges these edifying connections.