Playtime

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Channel: videogamedunkey

Views: 1,945,213

Rating: 4.9788752 out of 5

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Id: iTBW6jbHgX0

Length: 5min 34sec (334 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 09 2021

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[u/yuckyucky]

Playtime is a 1967 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jacques Tati.

Playtime is considered Tati's masterpiece, as well as his most daring work. In 2012, Playtime was 43rd in the British Film Institute's critics' list and 37th in their directors' list of "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time."

The film is famous for its enormous, specially constructed set and background stage, known as 'Tativille', which contributed significantly to the film's large budget, said to be 17 million francs (which would have been roughly 3.4 million US dollars in 1964). The set required a hundred workers to construct along with its own power plant. Budget crises and other disasters stretched the shooting schedule to three years, including 1.4 million francs in repairs after the set was damaged by storms. Tati observed, correctly, that the cost of building the set was no greater than what it would have cost to have hired Elizabeth Taylor or Sophia Loren for the leading role. Budget overruns forced Tati to take out large loans and personal overdrafts to cover ever-increasing production costs.

On its original French release, Playtime was acclaimed by most critics. However, it was commercially unsuccessful, failing to earn back a significant portion of its production costs.

Debts incurred as a result of the film's cost overruns eventually forced Tati to file for bankruptcy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime

[u/unicornlamp]

Was not expecting Dunkey to review a Jacques Tati film.

[u/ChuckCarmichael]

Finally a new video from my favorite reviewer of 1960s French-Italian comedy movies.

[u/DueIronEditor]

At first I was like, oh this looks like a cool game from the thumbnail.

Then I was thrown into a review of a movie from 1967 and it was wonderful.

[u/zaqufant]

Wait. Dunkey said he was done making good videos. Unsubscribed.

[u/Genus-God]

Great on Dunkey for introducing his (relatively young, I presume) audience to some great classical French films

[u/bouncy_egg]

The Dunk always delivers. Love hearing the guy talking about things he's passionate about. Also he doesn't cover movies that much, so this was a nice surprise as well.

[u/Bahamabanana]

Fantastic movie. Dunkey sure got some filmbuff cred right here.

[u/ShrimpShackShooters_]

Whoa. I don’t know who this guy is but I’m just shocked there’s a PlayTime review on the front page