Exposure

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Kyle Ashley Pillai 1/19/26 Kyle Ashley Pillai 1/19/26

Smiling Through It All: A Review of PlayTime (1967)

Staff Writer Kyle Ashley Pillai explores Jacques Tati’s arthouse classic PlayTime (1967), examining his visions of the future and how its celebration of the human spirit amidst modern chaos still resonates with contemporary urban life 50 years later.