Playtime (1967)
Playtime (sometimes written PlayTime or Play Time) is French director Jacques Tati's fourth major film, and generally considered to be his most daring film. It was shot from 1964 through 1967 and released in 1967. In Playtime, Tati again plays Monsieur Hulot, a character who had appeared in some of his earlier films, including Mon Oncle and Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot. As mentioned on the making of 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. Shot in 70 mm, Playtime 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.
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Cast:
- John Abbey
- Yves Barsacq
- Luce Bonifassy
- Evy Cavallaro
- Barbara Dennek
- Erica Dentzler
- Yvette Ducreux
- Alice Field
- Eliane Firmin-Didot
- Ketty France
- Michel Francini
- Grégoire Katz
- Nathalie Jam
- Billy Kearns
- Reinhard Kolldehoff
- Jacqueline Lecomte
- Léon Doyen
- Rita Maiden
- Marc Monjou
- Georges Montant
- Laure Paillette
- Henri Piccoli
- Olivia Poli
- Colette Proust
- Nicole Ray
- France Rumilly
- Jacques Tati
- Valérie Camille
- Sophie Wennek