Playtime (1967) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Playtime (Play Time)
Year
1967
Running time
123 min.
Country
France
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Synopsis
Playtime takes as its setting an ultra-modern Paris where familiar landmarks appear only as fleeting reflections in the new buildings of glass and steel. Alternating between Hulot and a group of American tourists, Tati exploits the chaos just below the overly ordered surface of this brave new world. Again moving from one nearly wordless episode to another, Tati sends his alter ego off to make an appointment in a whirring, featureless office complex. He subsequently moves on to an exhibition of new inventions, meets an old friend at an aquarium-like apartment, wreaks havoc in a snooty new restaurant, and, again, almost falls in love.
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Critics' reviews
- "My all-time favorite movie, this 1967 French comedy by actor-director Jacques Tati almost certainly has the most intricately designed mise en scene in all of cinema."
- "Jacques Tati attempted nothing less than a complete reworking of the conventional notions of montage and, amazingly, he succeeded."
- "Pic takes to the 70mm process with an extraordinary impressionistic outdoor set of a new Paris, and is an observant romp during a one-day stay of a group of tourists."
- "At a time when most comedies seem created for knuckle-trailing sensibilities, we can use as much sophistication as we can get."
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