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* CallBack: Barbara keeps opening glass doors in this drab, office tower neighborhood of Paris, and seeing reflections of glorious Paris landmarks. Once she sees the Eiffel Tower, once she sees the Arc de Triomphe, once she sees Cleopatra's Needle.
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* CallBack: Barbara keeps opening glass doors in this drab, office tower neighborhood of Paris, and seeing reflections of glorious Paris landmarks. Once she sees the Eiffel Tower, once she sees the Arc de Triomphe, once she sees Cleopatra's Needle.the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, once the Luxor obelisk.
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* UntranslatedTitle: A rare example in that this French film has an original title in English. (The French title would probably be ''Récréation''.)
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''Playtime'' (also spelled ''Play Time'') is a 1967 film by Creator/JacquesTati.
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''Playtime'' (also spelled ''Play Time'') is a 1967 French film directed by Creator/JacquesTati.
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** A running gag at the trade show has a German company showcasing "Golden Silence" doors that are designed to close quietly. When the company representative loses his temper, he tries to vent his frustration by slamming the door, and fails miserably.
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''Playtime'' (also spelt ''Play Time'') is a 1967 film by Creator/JacquesTati.
It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes, with a sort of running theme about the alienation and anomie created by modern life and technology.
It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes, with a sort of running theme about the alienation and anomie created by modern life and technology.
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''Playtime'' (also spelt spelled ''Play Time'') is a 1967 film by Creator/JacquesTati.
It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film withthe a greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes, with a sort of running theme about the alienation and anomie created by modern life and technology.
It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets. He spent 17 million francs. The film failed at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. His career as a director was effectively derailed for the rest of his life. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets.streets, a gigantic complex called "Tativille". He spent 17 million francs. The film failed at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. His career as a director was effectively derailed for the rest of his life. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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* SmashCut: The film ends with Barbara's tour group bus headed to the airport in the evening. We see the traffic lights coming on in the twilight as the bus passes. There' a shot of the road, the traffic lights in the twilight, and the airport in the distance. Then there's a smash to the same scene in the pitch black of night, with the airport and the traffic lights shining in the darkness. Then the movie ends.
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* SmashCut: The film ends with Barbara's tour group bus headed to the airport in the evening. We see the traffic lights coming on in the twilight as the bus passes. There' There's a shot of the road, the traffic lights in the twilight, and the airport in the distance. Then there's a smash to the same scene in the pitch black of night, with the airport and the traffic lights shining in the darkness. Then the movie ends.
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* SmashCut: The film ends with Barbara's tour group bus headed to the airport in the evening. We see the traffic lights coming on in the twilight as the bus passes. There' a shot of the road, the traffic lights in the twilight, and the airport in the distance. Then there's a smash to the same scene in the pitch black of night, with the airport and the traffic lights shining in the darkness. Then the movie ends.
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets. He spent 17 million francs. The film tanked at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. His career as a director was effectively derailed for the rest of his life. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets. He spent 17 million francs. The film tanked failed at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. His career as a director was effectively derailed for the rest of his life. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino
--> '''Barbara''': How do you say "drugstore" in French?\\
'''Hulot''': "Drugstore."
--> '''Barbara''': How do you say "drugstore" in French?\\
'''Hulot''': "Drugstore."
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* UntranslatedTitle: A rare example in that this French film has an original title in English.English.
* VisualPun: A priest stands below the big O in a neon sign, which lights up to make it appear he has a halo.
* VisualPun: A priest stands below the big O in a neon sign, which lights up to make it appear he has a halo.
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* RunningGag: The one doorman at the restaurant who keeps lending bits of his uniform to others who have lost/damaged theirs, until by the end he is dressed in rags.
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** The clattering noise Giffard's shoes make on the tiles of the office building.
** The one doorman at the restaurant who keeps lending bits of his uniform to others who have lost/damaged theirs, until by the end he is dressed inrags.rags.
** The drunk at the restaurant bar who keeps falling off his stool. After the third time someone sets the stool upside down and puts the drunk inside the legs, which hold him up like support beams.
** The clattering noise Giffard's shoes make on the tiles of the office building.
** The one doorman at the restaurant who keeps lending bits of his uniform to others who have lost/damaged theirs, until by the end he is dressed in
** The drunk at the restaurant bar who keeps falling off his stool. After the third time someone sets the stool upside down and puts the drunk inside the legs, which hold him up like support beams.
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* OrderVersusChaos: A running theme of the movie. The antiseptic, extreme cleanliness and order of the office park universe of the first part of the movie is an example of Order, and it comes off as depressing. Chaos is the second half of the movie, where the restaurant literally comes apart bit by bit, until the end the place is a wreck, and the guests are having a grand time.
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* RunningGag: The one doorman at the restaurant who keeps lending bits of his uniform to others who have lost/damaged theirs, until by the end he is dressed in rags.
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* SoftGlass: Hulot bumps his head into the glass door of the restaurant--and it shatters into a million pieces. Thereafter, the doorman simply holds the doorknob out in space and pretends to open a door.
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets. He spent 17 million francs. The film tanked at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets. He spent 17 million francs. The film tanked at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. His career as a director was effectively derailed for the rest of his life. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Hulot and Giffard, the man Hulot is trying to meet in the office building, have a series of extraordinary near misses. At one point Hulot is only yards away from Giffard, but runs out a door because he sees Giffard's reflection across the street in glass and mistakes it for the real man.
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* CallBack: Barbara keeps opening glass doors in this drab, office tower neighborhood of Paris, and seeing reflections of glorious Paris landmarks. Once she sees the Eiffel Tower, once she sees the Arc de Triomphe, once she sees Cleopatra's Needle.
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To make this film Tati borrowed a whole bunch of money and built enormous sets--namely, ''everything'' in the movie: the buildings, the airport set, the glass-walled apartments, the streets. He spent 17 million francs. The film tanked at the box office and Tati lost everything, including his production company, the rights to his movies, and his own home. It is however still hailed by critics as his masterpiece.
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It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes.
This movie was made on a higher budget than ''Film/MonOncle'' and failed to make any profit. Subsequently Tati switched back to low-profile films.
This movie was made on a higher budget than ''Film/MonOncle'' and failed to make any profit. Subsequently Tati switched back to low-profile films.
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It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes.
Thisvignettes, with a sort of running theme about the alienation and anomie created by modern life and technology.
M. Hulot is visiting a steel-and-glass office tower somewhere in a very ultra-modern, antiseptic Paris that looks very different from the old Paris that he knows and loves. He has a meeting with a man in the office tower, but he misses his meeting, gets lost, and spends much of the moviewas made wandering around the bewildering office mazes.
Meanwhile, an American woman named Barbara is part of a tour group of American women. Her tour group seems to be spending a lot of its time in this decidedly un-scenic part of Paris, seeing a trade fair with many new household gadgets ona higher budget than ''Film/MonOncle'' display, even as Barbara would prefer to see more of Hulot's old Paris. Eventually Hulot and failed to make any profit. Subsequently Tati switched back to low-profile films.
Barbara meet up at a brand new upscale restaurant that is having a lot of difficulties on its opening night.
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M. Hulot is visiting a steel-and-glass office tower somewhere in a very ultra-modern, antiseptic Paris that looks very different from the old Paris that he knows and loves. He has a meeting with a man in the office tower, but he misses his meeting, gets lost, and spends much of the movie
Meanwhile, an American woman named Barbara is part of a tour group of American women. Her tour group seems to be spending a lot of its time in this decidedly un-scenic part of Paris, seeing a trade fair with many new household gadgets on
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* GoingFurASwim: Sort of--it's a negligee, not a swimsuit. But the dynamic is the same when a woman arriving at the restaurant opening shows that she can't hand over her fur coat to the coat check lady because she's only wearing a negligee underneath.
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It is the third of four films in which Tati played his signature character Monsieur Hulot, following ''Film/MonOncle'' and ''Film/MrHulotsHoliday''. Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes.
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* SilenceIsGolden
** There isn't a lot of dialogue in the movie, and what dialogue there is, is mostly irrelevant chatter.
** One entire scene, where Hulot visits his old friend and the friend's family in the friend's ultramodern glass-walled apartment, is shot without any sound at all, or rather with the camera outside getting only the sound of traffic as the conversation goes on inside.
** There isn't a lot of dialogue in the movie, and what dialogue there is, is mostly irrelevant chatter.
** One entire scene, where Hulot visits his old friend and the friend's family in the friend's ultramodern glass-walled apartment, is shot without any sound at all, or rather with the camera outside getting only the sound of traffic as the conversation goes on inside.
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* ColorMotif: The whole film is colored in tones of gray everywhere. Tati apparently wanted to make a color film that ''looked'' like it was black and white. This makes the occasional uses of colorful background, like the old lady's corner flower stand, much more dramatic.
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* EiffelTowerEffect: A rather unusual use of this trope. A single shot of the Eiffel Tower in the far distance, contrasting strongly against all the steel and glass and chrome of the area where the story is set, is a startling reminder that yes, this is Paris.
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* EiffelTowerEffect: A rather unusual use of this trope. A single shot of the Eiffel Tower in the far distance, contrasting strongly against all the steel and glass and chrome of the area where the story is set, is a startling reminder that yes, this is Paris. This is repeated shortly thereafter when Barbara is surprised to see a vivid reflection of the Eiffel Tower in a glass door that she's opening.
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* BilingualDialogue: For some reason Mr. Lacs the businessman talks to his underling in English but the underling responds in French.
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* AsceticAesthetic: The whole office building that Hulot bumbles through is designed to look very clean and shiny and new and ultra-modern; the whole effect is off-putting and alienating.
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* QuieterThanSilence: Many scenes are shot in very quiet areas where what would be background sounds are intensified. The scene where M. Hulot is waiting in a lobby with another man stands out; the man's routine action in clicking a pen and writing in a notebook sound like the apocalypse.
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* CreepyCleanliness: The whole Paris/Tativille scene. It doesn't create fear, but a great sense of distress.
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This movie was made on a higher budget than Film/MonOncle and failed to make any profit. SunsequentlyTati switched back to low-profile films.
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Playtime (also spelt Play Time) is a 1967 film by Creator/JacquesTati.
Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes.
This movie was made on a higher budget than Film/MonOncle and failed to make any profit. SunsequentlyTati switched back to low-profile films.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Many shots here are '''pretty''' long.
* ShiningCity: The capital of France in this film.
* UntranslatedTitle: A rare example in that this French film has an original title in English.
Here he expanded on his previous style and made a film with the greater scope than ever. It tells no story but it is a set of loosely connected vignettes.
This movie was made on a higher budget than Film/MonOncle and failed to make any profit. SunsequentlyTati switched back to low-profile films.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Many shots here are '''pretty''' long.
* ShiningCity: The capital of France in this film.
* UntranslatedTitle: A rare example in that this French film has an original title in English.
