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Playtime

Playtime (stylized as PlayTime and also written as Play Time) is a 1967 satirical comedy film directed and co-written by Jacques Tati. Tati also stars in the film, reprising the role of Monsieur Hulot from his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). However, Tati grew ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring…

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Cinematography
Jean Badal · Andréas Winding
Countries
France · Italy
Directed by
Jacques Tati
Distributed by
SN Prodis (France) · Unidis (Italy)
Edited by
Gérard Pollicand
Languages
French · English · German

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Playtime

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related to Plot · 23
Playtime → American, As, At, Barbara, Cars, Eiffel Tower, Frenchman, He, Hulot, In, Monsieur Hulot, Montmartre, Orly Airport, Paris, The, The Airport, The American, The Apartments, The Carousel, The Offices
related to Reception · 15
Playtime → Debts, France, French, Moscow International Film Festival, On, Playtime's, Results, Silver Prize, Tati, Tati's, The, The New York Times, Though Vincent Canby, United States, US
related to External links · 10
Playtime → Criterion DVD, David Cairns, DVD TalkMy, IMDb Playtime, Monsieur Hulot, Norman Holland, Play Time, TCM Movie Database, The Criterion CollectionReview, The Guardian
related to Production · 6
Playtime → As Playtime, Budget, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Tati, The
Languages · 3
Playtime → English, French, German
Written by · 3
Playtime → Art Buchwald[b], Jacques Lagrange[a], Jacques Tati
Cinematography · 2
Playtime → Andréas Winding, Jean Badal
Countries · 2
Playtime → France, Italy
Distributed by · 2
Playtime → SN Prodis (France), Unidis (Italy)
Production companies · 2
Playtime → Jolly Film, Specta Films

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film tati hulot time set films also tati's american restaurant mr paris production characters barbara royal garden monsieur shot sound

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PlaytimeCinematographyJean Badal1.00infobox
PlaytimeCinematographyAndréas Winding1.00infobox
PlaytimeCountriesFrance1.00infobox
PlaytimeCountriesItaly1.00infobox
PlaytimeDirected byJacques Tati1.00infobox
PlaytimeDistributed bySN Prodis (France)1.00infobox
PlaytimeDistributed byUnidis (Italy)1.00infobox
PlaytimeEdited byGérard Pollicand1.00infobox
PlaytimeLanguagesFrench1.00infobox
PlaytimeLanguagesEnglish1.00infobox
PlaytimeLanguagesGerman1.00infobox
PlaytimeMusic byFrancis Lemarque1.00infobox
PlaytimeProduced byBernard Maurice1.00infobox
PlaytimeProduction companiesSpecta Films1.00infobox
PlaytimeProduction companiesJolly Film1.00infobox
PlaytimeRelease dates16 December 1967 (1967-12-16) (France)1.00infobox
PlaytimeRelease dates29 March 1968 (1968-03-29) (Italy)1.00infobox
PlaytimeRunning time124 minutes1.00infobox
PlaytimeStarringJacques Tati1.00infobox
PlaytimeWritten byJacques Tati1.00infobox
PlaytimeWritten byJacques Lagrange[a]1.00infobox
PlaytimeWritten byArt Buchwald[b]1.00infobox

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