Playtime

Playtime [videorecording] / director, Jacques Tati; writer, Jacques Tati; writer, Jacques Lagrange. - BFI Video Publishing, 2004. - 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + leaflet. - 0011400

The leaflet has the scene selection listed and the extras.

Tati regarded this film as his best and had a vast futuristic set especially built for it. Playtime is a surreal, comic vision of mankind's battle against the overwhelming depersonalisation of modern life. Hulot bumbles through this massive metropolis and there are jokes in sight and sound, with a specially composed soundtrack of footsteps, gibberish and lounge music. The film concludes on a positive note, with individualism seeming to make a comeback on the streets of Paris.

BBFC code: U.


DVD.


The film is in French and English languages, as there are a group of American tourists exploring Paris. Some of the French is translated into English subtitles.

Retail (S19.99)

5035673006016

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