Playtime - The Criterion Collection (4K-UHD)

Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) wanders through an ultra-modern Paris of glass towers, identical offices, and automated everything — and gradually, imperceptibly, humanity reasserts itself. Jacques Tati's supreme achievement, shot over three years on a purpose-built steel-and-glass city constructed outside Paris (nicknamed "Tativille"), is one of the most ambitious and expensive productions in French cinema history — and one of the most profound comedies ever made. Shot in 70mm and presented here in a new 4K restoration that finally does justice to its extraordinary depth of field and precise, polyphonic visual composition.

• France
• 124 min
• Color
• 1.33:1
• French
• Spine #112
• 1967

- New 4K digital restoration from the original 70mm camera negative
- New audio commentary by film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum
- New documentary on the making of Playtime and the construction of Tativille
- Archival interview with Jacques Tati
- Original theatrical trailer
- Illustrated booklet with essay by Dave Kehr