Films I Love #21: Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)

Play Time is one of the most exuberant, free-spirited, formally playful tributes imaginable to the spirit of invention and humor that leads people to make their own fun in the most unlikely of contexts. Director Jacques Tati constructed a formalist masterpiece in which characters, story, and dialogue are all but absent. The film takes place in a gray urban center, a prototypical modern city —