Playtime (1967) ( Play Time )

Playtime (1967) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Play Time
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jacques Tati

Written By:
Jacques Tati
Art Buchwald

Actors:
Jacques Tati ..... Monsieur Hulot
Barbara Dennek ..... Young Tourist
Rita Maiden ..... Mr. Schultz's Companion (as Rita Maïden)
France Rumilly ..... Woman Selling Eyeglasses
France Delahalle ..... Shopper in Department Store
Valérie Camille ..... Mr. Lacs's Secretary
Erika Dentzler ..... Mme. Giffard
Nicole Ray ..... Singer
Yvette Ducreux ..... Hat Check Girl
Nathalie Jem
Jacqueline Lecomte ..... Young Tourist's Friend
Oliva Poli
Alice Field
Sophie Wennek
Evy Cavallaro

Synopsis:

Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of modern technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrush 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 an age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction…

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 February, 2015.