PlayTime

Stefan Drees

The film has a fabulous sound design: On the one hand the things - shoes, doors, furniture, buildings, electronic devices etc. - have "voices" (or sometimes also lacking them) to tell us stories about life, lostness and alienation in a hypermodern urban environment. On the other hand Tati confronts us with scenes behind windows of which we only see the actions while the sounds and the real narrative remain hidden.

Enrico Gaudenzi

Grande capolavoro incompreso di Tatì. Un film fenomenale per finezza, ritmo, trovate. Un enorme affresco da osservare a più riprese, con la stessa attenzione per il primo piano, come per gli sfondi. Magistrale

LauraPalmer

Tati had a PERFECT vision of what Modernism was (and a CLEAR vision of what Modernism is nowadays): alienation. A film about Paris where you can only see Paris in glass reflections.

Egoisms

An incomparable masterpiece. PlayTime, as with Tati's three previous films, engages with the modern world from an ironical, amused, but loving distance. He is not so much at war with modernity as he is locked in a struggle to humanize it. He succeeds marvelously; he adopts and subverts the postmodern rejection of linear narrative coherence and standard characterization to revivify irrepressible humanity. Genius!

Alexander Dunkelberger

Thus far, this is Tati’s apotheosis. The humor, visuals, mood, and absolutely stunning choreography on display in his previous pictures reach their peak in this beautiful and brilliant comment on the modern world, and the nonsense and impracticalities that come with it. By turns beautiful and hilarious, nostalgic and modern, this is the French filmmaker’s masterpiece.

ruifragoso

This movie is like a dance. The montage, the complex choreography and the exaggerated use of the sound leads the dance, we are the followers. I don't know if this has already been said but I felt that Hulot was a MacGuffin and that the device that brought him to each situation was very obvious (an old friend that forced him to enter some place). But more important than this, I actually laughed.

El Biffo

Sort of a silent comedy, with sound but no talking. Such clever sight gags! Tati's crowning glory!

Tellechea

This guy is a master when it comes to critic the bourgeoisie. It is incredible how people can be so superficial and pointless. This film represents the real society of spectacle where the person who has the prettiest toy is the winner and gets praise. Tati warned us but we didn't care, that is why our world is like you see it...