Details
PlayTime 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion
Pre-sale - Release date: 10.02.2025
Original title: PlayTime
Year: 1967
Country: France
Region code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-ray
EAN: 715515329613
Image: 1.78:1 (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10
Audio: French - 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek
Director: Jacques Tati
Synopsis:
Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
Extras:
- 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the special features
- Introduction by actor and comedian Terry Jones
- Three selected-scene commentaries, by film historian Philip Kemp, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and Jacques Tati expert Stéphane Goudet
- Like Home, a visual essay by Goudet
- “Tativille,” a 1967 television program featuring an interview with Tati from the set of PlayTime
- Beyond “PlayTime,” a short documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production
- Interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
- Audio interview with Tati from the US debut of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival
- Tati Story, a short film by Goudet on the life and career of Tati
- “Monsieur Hulot's Work,” a 1976 television program about Tati's beloved character
- Cours du soir (1967), a short film written by and starring Tati
- Alternate English-language soundtrack
- PLUS: An essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
