film and architecture section: Play Time (1967) by Jacques Tati (Architecture and Film appreciation)

category: Architecture and Film

film index: 01

film: Play Time

director: Jacques Tati

writers: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald

production: France

release: 1967

playtime: 119 min

visual: colour

Language: French

Subtitles: English.srt - Spanish.srt - Brazilian.srt

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Michel Francini, Jack Gauthier, Rita Maiden, Billy Kearns, Reinhard Kolldehoff

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size: 1,39 GB

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"Play Time" is French director Jacques Tati's fourth major film, and generally considered to be one of his better films. It was shot in 1964 through 1967 and released in 1967. In "Play Time", Tati again plays Monsieur Hulot, a character who had appeared in some of his earlier films, including "Mon Oncle" and "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot".

In "Play Time", Tati's character, M. Hulot, and a group of American tourists attempt to navigate a futuristic Paris constructed of straight lines, modernist glass and steel high-rise buildings, multi-lane roadways, and cold, artificial furnishings. In this environment, only the irrepressible nonconformity of human nature and an occasional appreciation for the good old days breathe life into an otherwise sterile urban lifestyle. Modern industrial technologies, accepted as necessary by society, are represented by Tati as obstructions to daily life and an interference to natural human interaction.
"Play Time" is structured in six sequences, linked by two characters who repeatedly encounter one another in the course of a day, Barbara, a young American tourist visiting Paris with a group composed primarily of middle-aged American women, and Monsieur Hulot, a befuddled Frenchman lost in the new modernity of Paris: the airport, the offices, the trade exhibition, the apartments, the Royal Garden restaurant (the main sequence that takes up almost the entire second half of the film), the carousel of cars.

The film is famous for its enormous, specially constructed set and background stage, known as 'Tativille', which cost enormous sums to build and maintain. The set required a hundred construction workers to construct along with its own power plant. Storms, budget crises, and other disasters stretched the shooting schedule to three years. Budget overruns forced Tati to take out large loans and personal overdrafts to cover ever-increasing production costs.

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Play Time (1967) by Jacques Tati (Architecture and Film appreciation)

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