PlayTime
Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental 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 world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by actor and comedian Terry Jones
- Three selected-scene commentaries, by film historian Philip Kemp, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and Jacques Tati expert Stéphane Goudet
- Like Home, a 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by Goudet
- “Tativille,” a 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo International, featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime
- Beyond “PlayTime,” a short 2002 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production
- Interview from 2006 with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
- Audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco Film Festival
- Alternate English-language soundtrack
- New English subtitle translation
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by actor and comedian Terry Jones
- Three selected-scene commentaries, by film historian Philip Kemp, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and Jacques Tati expert Stéphane Goudet
- Like Home, a 2013 visual essay on PlayTime by Goudet
- “Tativille,” a 1967 episode of the British television program Tempo International, featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime
- Beyond “PlayTime,” a short 2002 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production
- Interview from 2006 with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
- Audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco Film Festival
- Alternate English-language soundtrack
- New English subtitle translation
Cast
- Jacques Tati
- Monsieur Hulot
- Barbara Dennek
- Young tourist
- Georges Montant
- Monsieur Giffard
- France Rumilly
- Woman selling eyeglasses
- Reinhart Kolldehoff
- German businessman
- André Fouché
- Restaurant manager
- Billy Kearns
- Mr. Schultz
- Yves Barsacq
- Hulot’s friend
- Nicole Ray
- Singer
Credits
- Director
- Jacques Tati
- Cinematography
- Jean Badal
- Cinematography
- Andréas Winding
- Screenplay
- Jacques Tati
- Screenplay
- Jacques Lagrange
- English dialogue
- Art Buchwald
- Music
- James Campbell
- Music
- Francis Lemarque
- Editor
- Gérard Pollicand
- Production design
- Eugène Roman
- Sound
- Jacques Maumont
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