Playtime Comments

  • Arne 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    9.5 masterpiece! Encounter a modernist hangover in a modernist glass fishbowl. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe are just phantom reflections on glass. Jacques Tati is like a middle-hung window, reflecting both sides of the commodity society. Resolutely break all narrative rules, the group play scheduling refreshes the audience's cognition, and the dazzling deep focus and sound effects fill all the gaps that allow you to think. The street lights in Paris were on, but not very...

  • Maeve 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    Tati used more avant-garde abstract paintings in the composition of this film, which caused a sense of loss. If the other two films express the opposition between man and society, warmth and loneliness through the encounter of Mr. Hulot, then this is the case. Through poetic and philosophical exposition, the film transforms Mr. Luo's personal experience into the plight of the entire human society. It can be said that Playtime is an allegorical summary of the Hulot...

  • Ransom 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    Three and a half. This concludes the Hulot trilogy. The set is expensive, the music is attentive, and the lines are very few. As for the comedy and satire, it is no worse than the previous...

  • Guillermo 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    It is a masterpiece, from the scheduling of "Festival", Mr. Hulot's characters to the satire of modern life in "My Uncle". As far as movies are concerned, we audiences are not fun-time...

  • Grant 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    #2017North Film Festival# A real "group play", a group play of a large group of people~ From a fully modern labyrinth office building to a high-end restaurant with constant problems, there is no protagonist, only the next character is constantly brought out The last character ~ This satirizes the casual nature of the French, and the portrayal of the Americans is even more distinct. Because a lot of glass is used, the borrowing and reflection are very good in this film. What is valuable is that...

  • Kaia 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    Playing on the modern age of the city, the length of the film is rich in details, and it is the kind of movie that gets extra points every time you watch it again. Tati is not only a comedy master, but also an architect and props maker and inventor who does not hesitate to lose money. He is also a uniformed leg controller. The super-large format shows the movement in the space. The composition is simply the gospel of obsessive-compulsive patients. Use to create a silent film-like environment...

  • Heloise 2022-03-22 09:02:29

    8/10. The presentation of individual details purely as a mise-en-scene is so meticulous that the cuts of meat by the waiter in the foreground of a certain paragraph are in harmony with the rhythm of the tourists entering the car door on the right side of the background, and the building structure moves from a straight line during the day to a right angle with the darkness. The liveliness of the atmosphere gradually becomes curved; the confusion of the hospital and the airport in the opening set...

  • Nils 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    Copy and paste the Bauhaus fish tank building + Alice lunatic tea party-style dinner restaurant + endless revolving city carnival. The overwhelming master's picture scroll, adding the clumsy stature of a hillbilly limping as many as possible, the hustle and bustle of the great Paris scenery has been sealed by Tati's personal...

  • Idella 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    Jacques Tati’s classic works still seem forward-looking. The cold steel glass labyrinth with the main color of blue and gray, the application of glass reflection (Eiffel, Sacred Heart, Arc de Triomphe); exquisite group play and scene scheduling, shot on 70mm film in the old "Tati Village", information content It's huge and needs to be watched many times; cool humor emerges endlessly, and the dining room scene is very exciting; the playground carousel flow; the tourists in the shaking mirror and...

  • Barbara 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    You can discover new things after watching it twenty times. 9.7★★★★★ Shanghai Tati Retrospective Film Festival...

Extended Reading
  • Calista 2022-04-19 09:02:38

    confusion and cognition

    Chaotic and fun everyday. The skill of playing with contrast flexibly, the background is chaotic, the scene is still, the gaze point is guided (sound, color, action, repeating, jumping and emphasizing), dizzying, and the events appearing at the same time in the deep-focus lens are interspersed in...

  • Austin 2022-03-22 09:02:29

    David Bordwell Notes + Talking to Himself

    I love it so much, the playground, the murmuring voices, a series of meddling, "only kids and eccentrics know the secret of joy" "no strong plot, one after the other, no stakes "A satirical commentary on the habitual behavior of modern life - work, vacation, home, travel", people's lives have...

Playtime quotes

  • Barbara, Young Tourist: How do you say "drugstore" in French?

    Monsieur Hulot: Drugstore.

  • Monsieur Hulot: [in English, to Barbara] I'll be back.

    Old Woman 1: [in French] What's that mean?

    Old Woman 2: [in French] I've no idea. Can't they use French?