In his appreciation of the films of Jacques Tati, the film scholar and musician Michel Chion notes that the filmmaker's world is essentially one of juxtapositions. In addition he cites the ethereal quality of Tati's world.
"We never feel the density of matter in a Tati film: not the thickness of wood, not the hardness of metal, not the roughness of skin Tati achieves a sense of lightness in the way he frames his images and through his choice of lighting and sounds. The particular attention he gives to sound contributes to the impression of working with weightless and hollow objects"
"Tati never makes us feel the fullness and consistency of matter"
Michel Chion,The Films of Jacques Tati, Guernica Editions, Toronto, 1987,pp119-120
