Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel, and the encroaching age of technology. Amidst the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways. Includes commentary, documentary, essay, featurettes, and more.
La jaquette indique : "Des touristes américains débarquent à Orly pour visiter Paris en à peine plus d'un jour. Monsieur Hulot, de son côté, paraît décidé à trouver un emploi. Mais il lui est très difficile de retrouver son chemin et son interlocuteur dans le Paris moderne fait de verre et d'acier. La route de Hulot et des Américaines se croisent dans un restaurant chic, le Royal Garden, qui, à peine achevé, vient tout juste d'ouvrir."
Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Amidst the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
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.
Play time
Playtime
"Jacques Tati, the choreographer of the charming, comical ballet that is Playtime, casts the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot as the principal character wandering through modern Paris. Within the film's three large movements, Hulot goes from fear of his ultra-modern, glass-towered environment, to a poetic transcendence of it." --Kanopy website.
Jacques Tati stars as his world-famous character, Mr. Hulot, in this halarious romp concerning Hulot's difficulty in coping with modern life. Everything seems to be against him--including a glass-fronted airport, a new restaurant, and even a supermarket. Tati is the master of sight and sound gags, and Playtime is a feast of brilliance, with a climax you won't forget.
A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find its mass of skyscrapers and office blocks indistinguishable from those of any other big city. Whenever the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group as everyone copes with modern life, comedy ensues.
French films
Motion pictures, French
A l'aéroport d'Orly, un groupe de touristes débarquent pour visiter Paris. Quant à Monsieur Hulot, il est à la recherche du chef de service mais se perd dans cet immense aéroport à l'architecture déroutante. Il fait connaissance avec une jeune américaine à qui il ne pourra dire adieu, coincé par un guichet automatique...
Jacques Tati stars as his world-famous character, Mr. Hulot, in this hilarious romp concerning Hulot's difficulty in coping with modern life. Everything seems to be against him -- including a glass-fronted airport, a new restaurant, and even a supermarket. Tati is the master of sight and sound gags, and Playtime is a feast of brilliance, with a climax you won't forget.
M. Hulot has difficulty in coping with modern life.
DVDR 5326 Playtime
Italian films
French comedian Tati stars as Mr. Hulot, who has difficulty coping with modern life. Everything seems to be against him, even a supermarket.
Tati's comedy the third of his films to feature the gangling form of Monsieur Hulot, is a surreal, comic vision of mankind's battle against the overwhelming depersonalization of modern city life. In his vision of studio-built modern Paris, virtually ten years in the planning and realisation, and originally shot on 70 mm. there is no clear definition between subject and background. Every character, Hulot included, has the status of an extra. Every scene is in long shot so that the subject is everything that appears in the shot where several points of interest compete independently for the viewer's attention. In a sense the viewer has the possibility during several viewings of creating a different movie each time.
Commedia (Genere)
Play Time
In una Parigi ultramoderna un gruppo di turisti americani si incrocia con monsieur Hulot, impegnato nella vana ricerca di un impiegato in un ufficio labirintico.
Comedia
Comedy in which Hulot and a group of American tourists are bewildered by life in an airport, a business block and a restaurant.
Jacques Tati's spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the achievement of this film, PLAYTIME. Marking the third appearance of Tati's Mr. Magoo-like character, Mr. Hulot, PLAYTIME takes as its subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous and always hilarious effects on the people living within it. As in most Tati films, a minimal plot (the parallel paths of Hulot and a group of American tourists), is held together by a seamless ballet of visual, aural, and conceptual gags.
Unas americanas hacen un viaje organizado. Programa: una capital por día. Al llegar a París se dan cuenta de que el aeropuerto es exactamente igual al que acaban de dejar en Roma, las carreteras son las mismas que las de Hamburgo y las farolas son como las de Nueva York.
"A l'aéroport d'Orly, un groupe de touristes débarquent pour visiter Paris. Quant à Monsieur Hulot, il est à la recherche du chef de service mais se perd dans cet immense aéroport à l'architecture déroutante. Il fait connaissance avec une jeune américaine à qui il ne pourra dire adieu, coincé par un guichet automatique...
Jacques Tati stars as his world-famous character, Mr. Hulot, in this hilarious romp concerning Hulot's difficulty in coping with modern life. Everything seems to be against him - including a glass-fronted airport, a new restaurant, and even a supermarket. Tati is the master of sight and sound gags, and Playtime is a feast of brilliance, with a climax you won't forget.
Jacques Tati as Mr. Hulot in trying to keep an appointment bumbles through the modern Paris of glass and steel skyscrapers.
Jacques Tati stars as his world-famous character, M. Hulot, in this hilarious romp concerning Hulot's difficulty in coping with modern life. Dubbed in English.
"Paris, años 70: la ciudad se muestra fría y gris. Hulot viaja a esta ciudad con el fin de encontrar a un oficial americano, pero lo único que encuentra es un mundo modernista cuya arquitectura le deja fascinado por las técnicas empleadas. Hulot se mezclará con los turistas americanos causando, como es normal, el caos."
Videodiscos DVD
Une jeune américaine débarque à Orly parmi d'autres touristes, pour visiter Paris. Elle est conduite à son hôtel, un immense building de verre. C'est là que M. Hulot a un rendez-vous important avec un certain M. Gifford qu'il ne parvient pas à joindre, perdu dans un dédale de couloirs et de bureaux. Le soir, il participe à l'inauguration du Royal Garden. Les travaux étant à peine achevés, la soirée tourne à la catastrophe. Mais, du moins, M. Hulot peut-il faire la connaissance de la jeune américaine. Lorsqu'elle repart à l'aube, il ne peut lui faire ses adieux, restant prisonnier d'un guichet automatique.
Feature films
A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find its mass of skyscrapers and office blocks indistinguishable from those of any other big city. Whenever the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group, comedy ensues.
Playtime : tempo di divertimento <risorsa elettronica&gt
Comedia cinematográfica
A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of high technology.
In the third in the Monsieur Hulot trilogy, the bemused Frenchman tries in vain to maintain an appointment in an urban landscape of glass and steel. A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find its mass of skyscrapers and office blocks indistinguishable from those of any other big city. Whenever the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group as everyone copes with modern life, comedy ensues.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Monsieur Hulot alle prese con un gruppo di turisti americani in visita a Parigi. Una serie di incidenti trasforma la serata dell'inaugurazione di un locale nella demolizione di un cantiere. (Mymovies).
A group of American tourists arrive in Paris, only to find its mass of skyscrapers and office blocks indistinguishable from those of any other big city. Whenever the path of Monsieur Hulot (Tati) crosses that of the group , comedy ensues.
In the third in the Monsieur Hulot trilogy, the bemused Frenchman tries in vain to maintain an appointment in an urban landscape of glass and steel.
Monsieur Hulot wanders through modernist Paris trying to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the new age of technology.
Amid the babble of English, French and German tourists, Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusion of the technology age.
Features
Comedy films
M. Hulot wanders through a bewildering modern Paris of glass and steel trying to keep a business appointment and repeatedly encountering a group of American tourists searching in vain for the old Paris.
Tempo di divertimento
Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) tiene una importante cita pero se pierde en el laberinto de la arquitectura moderna de la ciudad de París. De forma paralela un grupo de turistas norteamericanas visitan la ciudad y coinciden con Hulot.
"Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner"--imdb.com
Follows Mr. Hulot, Tati's lovable alter ego, on his way to a business appointment that he will never keep. Continually derailed by misleading signs and high-tech gadgets, Hulot's path crosses hilariously with tourists searching in vain for old Paris. Charming vignettes lead to a riotous final sequence, in which a new restaurant collapses under the weight of its own technology.
Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel, and the encroaching age of technology. Amidst the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
In una Parigi ultramoderna un gruppo di turisti americani si incrocia con Monsieur Hulot impegnato nella vana ricerca di un impiegato in un ufficio labirintico. (Mereghetti).
"Playtime is a surreal comic vision of mankind's battle against the overwhelming depersonalisation of modern life....Tati stars as the hapless Hulot who ambles through the massive metropolis specially constructed for the film" -- Container.
Tati's comedy is path-breaking modernist work. He does not only depart from the classical system but like Ozu and Bresson set up an alternative filmic system. In his vision of studio-built modern Paris, virtually ten years in the planning and realisation, and originally shot on 70 mm. there is no clear definition between subject and background. Every character, Hulot included, has the status of an extra. Every scene is in long shot so that the subject is everything that appears in the shot where several points of interest compete independently for the viewer's attention. In a sense the viewer has the possibility during several viewings of creating a different movie each time.
Des touristes américaines ont opté pour une formule de voyage grâce à laquelle elles visitent une capitale par jour. Monsieur Hulot, de son côté, paraît décidé de trouver un emploi. La route des américaines et de Monsieur Hilot se croise...
Monsieur Hulot veroorzaakt in een futuristisch Parijs een enorme chaos.
"M. Hulot (Tati) wanders through an unrecognizable modern Paris of steel and glass skyscrapers. ... The various episodes ... are linked by Hulot's trying to keep an appointment"--Maltin, 2002.
Fiction films
Drama
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
Hulot, Monsieur (Fictitious character) Drama.
Technological innovations Social aspects Drama.
Películas cinematográficas "Playtime" DVD.
Películas cinematográficas Playtime DVD.
Technological innovations Social aspects.
Américains France Paris Romans, nouvelles, etc.