• Trivia (1)
• Plot Description
• Soundtrack
• Wallpapers
• Shooting Locations
• Popularity
Release Date
Dec 13, 1967 (France)
Mar 29, 1968 (Italy)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 13, 2001
Running Time
2 hours, 35 minutes
Country France, Italy
Studio Spectrafilm
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Tatis herrliche Zeiten (1968)
|
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Slapstick, Farce, Experimental, Urban, Satire, Futuristic, Surreal
Plot: Jacques 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 form 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
More Plot Descriptions
 |
Related Movies:
|
 Discussion forum for this movie
|
| |
|
| Cast |
| | Rita Maiden
Une vraie jeune fille, Made in U.S.A., Mamá cumple cien años | France Rumilly
The Gendarme of St. Tropez, The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space, The Gendarme in New York | | | | |
[more] |
|
| Music By |
Francis Lemarque
Visions of Europe, Cave se rebiffe, Le, The Gentleman from Epsom |
|
|
|
Movie Database
In Theaters
