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''Playtime'' (sometimes written ''PlayTime'' or ''Play Time'') is a French comedy film, and is Jacques Tati's fourth major film, and generally considered to be his most daring film. It was shot from 1964 through 1967 and released in 1967. In ''Playtime'', 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''. As mentioned on the production documentary that accompanies the Criterion Collections DVD of the film, by 1964 Tati had grown ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role. Unable to dispense with the popular character altogether, Hulot appears intermittently in ''Playtime'', alternating between central and supporting roles. Shot in 70 mm, ''Playtime'' is notable for its enormous set, which Tati had built specially for the film, as well as Tati's trademark use of subtle, yet complex visual comedy supported by creative sound effects; dialogue is frequently reduced to the level of background noise. ==Plot== ''Playtime'' 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 sequences are as follows: *The Airport: the American tour group arrives at the ultra-modern and impersonal Orly Airport. *The Offices: M. Hulot arrives at one of the glass and steel buildings for an important meeting, but gets lost in a maze of disguised rooms and offices, eventually stumbling into a trade exhibition of lookalike business office designs and furniture nearly identical to those in the rest of the building. *The Trade Exhibition: M. Hulot and the American tourists are introduced to the latest modern gadgets, including a door that slams "in golden silence" and a broom with headlights, while the Paris of legend goes all but unnoticed save for a flower-seller's stall and a single reflection of the Eiffel Tower in a glass window. *The Apartments: as night falls, M. Hulot meets an old friend who invites him to his sparsely furnished, ultra-modern and glass-fronted flat. This sequence is filmed entirely from the street, observing Hulot and other building residents through uncurtained floor-to-ceiling picture windows. *The Royal Garden: This sequence takes up almost the entire second half of the film. At the restaurant, Hulot reunites with several characters he has periodically encountered during the day, along with a few new ones, including a nostalgic ballad singer and a boisterous American businessman. *The Carousel of Cars: Hulot buys Barbara two small gifts as mementos of Paris before her departure. In the midst of a complex ballet of cars in a traffic circle, the tourists' bus returns to the airport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Playtime」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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