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35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille

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The End of the Holiday

A lot of the jokes rely on the fact that this was filmed in 70 millimeters and meant to be shown an enormous screen. He bought the reason it was a financial catastrophe is he refused to have it shown at cinemas that didn't have 70 millimeter projectors, i.e. nearly all of them. So they do that. And then he buys her little present scarf, pretty scarf with the Eiffel Tower on it, which is what she wants us. But he's kind of, he's like trapped in the, by the, the like exit system of the shop. Yeah. It's very sweet. She gets it. The film goes off and, and that

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