Playtime
Jacques Tati / FR, 1967 / 125 min.
Tati’s magnum opus. Monsieur Hulot is caught in a bleak and soul-destroying Paris filled with lifeless steel and glass architecture. Tati shot the film in a specially constructed film set, ‘Tativille’. Screened in 70mm!
Playtime was shot on the epic wide-screen format 70mm. To capture the impersonal nature of modern cities, Tati filmed mainly in total shots, in which the characters seem to drown. In Playtime, he sketches a world obsessed with money, excessive luxury, strange technology and frigid architecture. In this world there are no more individuals, just masses: everyone is preoccupied with themselves, and with working.
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Director
Jacques Tati
Production year
1967
Country
FR
Original title
Playtime
Length
125 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
70mm, DCP
Part of
Feat or Failure
Magnum opus or flawed masterpiece? No film divided opinion at the last Cannes film festival as much as Francis Ford Coppola's latest epic, Megalopolis. To accompany the première, Eye is screening a selection of other films that turned out to be way ahead of their time – in spite of not being well understood in their own era.
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