Post Description

Frankrijk / Itali�
Komedie / Drama
155 minuten / 120 minuten (Ingekorte versie)

geregisseerd door Jacques Tati
met Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek en Rita Maiden

Derde deel uit Tati's Monsieur-Hulotserie. Monsieur Hulot moet in Parijs een Amerikaan ontmoeten, maar hij raakt verdwaald tussen de moderne architectuur. Als hij bij een groep Amerikaanse toeristen belandt, besluit hij met hen door de stad te trekken.

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Criterion Collection # 112

DVD Release Date: September 5, 2006
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Director: Jacques Tati


Description
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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.


READ:
The Dance of Playtime
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
criterion.com/current/posts/446


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.50 + 5.30 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 124 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Sound (main feature): French

Subtitles: optional English


DISC 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 behind-the-scenes footage from the production.
# Tati Story, a short biographical film.
# '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: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.


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