UID:
kobvindex_INT0003597
Format:
1 DVD video (119 minutes + 67 minutes bonus) :
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sound (Dolby Digital) ; colour ;
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12 cm ; image format : 16:9 - 1.78:1.
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Des touristes américaines débarquent à Orly pour visiter Paris en à peine plus d'un jour. Monsieur Hulot, de son côté, paraît décidé à trouver un emploi. Mas il lui est très difficile de retrouver son chemin et son interlocuteur dans le Paris moderne fait de verre et d'acier. La route de Hulot et des Américaines se croisent dans un restaurant chic, le Royal Garden, qui, à peine achevé, vient tout juste d'ouvrir..." -- "American tourists arrive in Orly to visit Paris in just over a day. Mr. Hulot, for his part, seems determined to find a job. Mas it is very difficult for him to find his way and his interlocutor in modern Paris made of glass and steel. The road of Hulot and American women intersect in a chic restaurant, the Royal Garden, which, just completed, just opened..."
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Arriving nearly a decade after Mon Oncle, Playtime continues the adventures of M. Hulot. More than a decade seems to have passed since its predecessor, however. The colorful Paris of Mon Oncle, last seen being slowly chipped away by progress, has now vanished almost entirely. 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. The most ambitious and technically complex of the Hulot films, it proved unprofitable and helped usher in the financial difficulties that would plague Tati late in life before later getting the recognition it enjoys today."
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Playtime (sometimes written PlayTime) is a 1967 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. In Playtime, Tati again plays Monsieur Hulot, a character who had appeared in his earlier films Mon Oncle and Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot. As mentioned on the production documentary that accompanies the Criterion Collections DVD of the film, by 1964 Tati had grown ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role. Unable to dispense with the popular character altogether, Hulot appears intermittently in Playtime, alternating between central and supporting roles. Playtime was made from 1964 through 1967. Shot in 70 mm, the work is notable for its enormous set, which Tati had built specially for the film, as well as Tati's trademark use of subtle, yet complex visual comedy supported by creative sound effects; dialogue is frequently reduced to the level of background noise. Playtime is considered Tati's masterpiece, as well as his most daring work. In 2012, Playtime was 43rd in the British Film Institute's critics' list and 37th in their directors' list of Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time."
Note:
BONUS MATERIAL: - Jacques Tati, invité de ABC Tempo (25 minutes); - Like Home, un film d'analyse de Stéphane Goudet (18 minutes); - Séquences commentées par Jérôme Deschamps (12 minutes) et Stéphane Goudet (12 minutes).
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LANGUAGE NOTE: French (and English) original audio (2.0 and 3.0), French (for the deaf and hearing impaired) and English subtitles.
Language:
German
Keywords:
Motion pictures
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