PLAYTIME
| 1967 – 124′ – Comedy, Classic, Family 10+.
Written by: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald.
Directed by: Jacques Tati.
Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecome, John Abbey, Valérie Camille, Billy Kearns, Rita Maiden, Georges Montant.
Official Selection COLCOA 2017 (Digitally Restored Version).
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis in this monumental cinematic achievement. A nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern Paris. With every inch crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PLAYTIME is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.