Playtime [videorecording] / une production Specta Films ; Bernard Maurice ; administrateur de production, Michel Chauvin ; un film de Jacques Tati ; scénario original de Jacques Tati ; avec la collaboration artistique de Jacques Lagrange ; dialogue anglais de Art Buchwald.
Au-delà de "Playtime." Tati story. Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's work. Cours du soir.
Notes:
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maïden, France Rumilly, France Delahalle, Valérie Camille, Erika Dentzler, Nicole Ray, Yvette Duereux, Nathalie Jem. Videodisc release of the 1967 motion picture. Special features include video introduction by Terry Jones ; selected scene commentary by film historian Phiip Kemp ; alternate international soundtrack ; Au-delà de "Playtime", a short documentary with behind-the-scenes footage ; Tati story, short biographical film about Tati ; "Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's work," a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati ; audio interview with Tati ; video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot ; Cours du soir, a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati ; new essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Summary:
Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
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