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Bodil Awards 1969 - Won - Best European Film

Playtime

Director:
Jacques Tati
124 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three - year - long, bank - breaking production, Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old - fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly modernist Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, Playtime is a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

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"You have to work to pay attention, but it's worth it - this scathing but hilarious look at a civilization obsessed with technology will open your eyes to the needless inventions in use today. "

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Details

Runtime:
124 min.

Country:
FRANCE

Language:
French

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • All - new, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Video introduction by writer, director, and performer Terry Jones
  • Selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp
  • Au - dela de "Playtime," a short documentary featuring archival behind - the - scenes footage from the set
  • Tati Story, a short biographical film about Tati
  • "Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Work," a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati
  • Rare audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of Playtime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival (Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives)
  • Video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
  • Cours du soir, a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati
  • Alternate international soundtrack
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A new essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum

 

 

 

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