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Playtime, comédie de Jacques Tati (1907 - 1982) - Monsieur Hulot, personnage récurrent des films de Tati, se retrouve à Paris, perdu dans une ville ultramoderne et impersonnelle. Dans ce film, Tati se moque de la société française qui se modernise très rapidement, au risque de se déshumaniser.

Doué d'un talent comique, Jacques Tati a commencé sur scène en créant des spectacles humoristiques. Il est ensuite devenu réalisateur, et son premier long-métrage Jours de fêtes a été récompensé en 1949 à la biennale de Venise. Jacques Tati est l' un des réalisateurs français les plus connus à l'étranger. Ses films, teintés d'humour, d'émotion et reflétant son époque ont en général reçu un meilleur accueil à l'international qu'en France.

A comedy by Jacques Tati (1907-1982). Monsieur Jules, a recurring character in Tati's films and played by Tati himself, lives in Paris and loses himself in an ultramodern and impersonal city. In the film, Tati mocks French society, modernizing at breakneck speed and risking the dehumanization of the country.

A talented comedian, Jacques Tati made his stage debut by creating humorous stage performances. He later became a film director, and his first feature-length film, Jours de fêtes, won an award at the 1949 Venice Biennale. Jacques Tati is without a doubt one of the most well-known international filmmakers in France. His films contain humor, emotion and a true portrayal of the society of the time, and are often more popular abroad than in France.

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Extended Reading
  • 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 two.

  • Sid 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Anti-discipline. The transparent space composed of inorganic materials is originally a disciplined field, but under the leadership of Mr. Yu Luo, the authoritarian point of view of the camera and the audience's sight are diluted by the crowd and architectural space: we are constantly breaking into new places, new Things keep popping up in front of you, and there is no time for him to care. As a result, people, architectural space, and environmental sounds form a configuration that communicates with each other and operates together on a plane of intensity. At the same time, the sense of humor formed by those unconscious limbs colliding with "things" turns into a line of escape: breaking the rigid rules and re-freeing the body's functions. And those muttering French-speaking masses, the almost silent Mr. Hulot, are constantly challenging Anglocentrism: they stutter speech, they stutter language, so that a truly "cosmopolitan" language can come into being.

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?