Playtime (Dual Format Edition - Blu-Ray and DVD)

Regarded by many as Jacques Tati’s masterpiece, 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 – one of the most ambitious and imaginative film sets ever to grace the screen.  The film is a multi-layered symphony of sight and sound gags.  Jokes unfold in various parts of the frame simultaneously and the soundtrack – a meticulously composed cacophony of footsteps, gibberish, and lounge music – only adds to the absurdity.

Extra Features:

• Newly remastered to High Definition

• Dual Format Edition: includes both Blu-ray and the DVD versions of the main feature

• Feature commentary by film historian Philip Kemp

• Short Documentary Au-delà de Playtime (DVD only)

• Continuity supervisor Sylvette Baudrot on Tati and Playtime (DVD only)

• Director biography + short film about Tati (DVD only)

• Audio interview with Jacques Tati

• Original trailers for Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Mon Oncle and Playtime

• Includes extensive booklet with contextualising essays on the film and its director