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Rated: Unrated; DVD Release Date: Sep 05, 2006; Genre: Comedy; With: Jacques Tati
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By Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

Whether it's Austin Powers or Harry Potter, a hit character today gets franchised ad infinitum. But as Jacques Tati tired of alter ego Monsieur Hulot, a French-provincial bumbler previously front and center in M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle, he turned this brilliant vision of an over-urbanized Paris into a Where's Hulot? The trenchcoated Everyman hovers on the periphery of astonishingly sustained slice-of-life long shots. Some unbelievers find the artful inaction in Play Time more exhausting than funny, but they're so wrong. EXTRAS Poignant interviews detailing how the mega-costly picture bankrupted Tati.


Posted Sep 15, 2006
 

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