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Playtime (DVD, 2004)
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Product Information
Monsieur Hulot struggles once more against modernity in this comic take on the gadgets and other 'conveniences' of city life.Product Identifiers
EAN5035673006016
eBay Product ID (ePID)30751494
Product Key Features
ActorJacques Tati, Sharon Maiden, Barbara Dennek
Film/TV TitlePlaytime
DirectorJacques Tati
LanguageFrench
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time125 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen\16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
FeaturesFeature Commentary By Philip Kemp\Short Documentary Audela De Playtime\Continuity Supervisor Sylvette Baudrot on Tati And Playtime\Directors Biography\Original Trailers, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificateU
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ReviewsEvening Standard - ...An unusually intelligent, ingenious, witty and wholly individual movie..., Time Out - ...This jewel of Tati's career is a hallucinatory comic vision...
Additional InformationJacques Tati's spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the gargantuan achievement of this film, PLAYTIME. Marking the third appearance of Tati's Mr. Magoo-like character, Mr. Hulot, PLAYTIME takes as its subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous and always hilarious effects on the people living within it. As in most Tati films, a minimal plot (the parallel paths of Hulot and a group of American tourists), is held together by a seamless ballet of visual, aural, and conceptual gags. Tati constructed an enormous set, Tativille, rendering a high modern contemporary Paris decked in chrome, mirrors, and glass within which the surreal slapstick of PLAYTIME unfolds. Filmed in 70mm Technicolor, with sound recorded on a seven-channel stereo, the film approaches the city from a bird's eye perspective showing the complex yet abstract machinations of people and their technologies, with each character linked to the other and the whole ensemble dependant on the giant grid of the modern city. Objects, people, and sounds vie for the viewer's attention and all exert equal fascination and comedic power in the circus of Tati's modern life. From the airport to the high rise to the nightclub, Hulot weaves in and out of view, leaving a trail of bumped heads, offended sensibilities and curious glances in his wake
Movie/TV TitlePlaytime
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Silence is golden
Sheer class from Jacques Tati, showed to someone who hadn't heard of him ! Another fan on board.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Dec, 2020
Good but not that good
Not as good as the originalVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 26 Apr, 2024
Excellent film
Excellent film with humour and chaos as one would expect from Tati.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Jul, 2019
A must
Another brilliant JacquesTati film - a must for all fansVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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- 22 May, 2024
All fine!
All fine!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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