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

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The Garden Party in Playtime

It's basically half the film is the one in playtime. In this one they're all having a little garden party. There's a certain amount of clowning on the part of hula who ends up like walking into the pond by mistake and various other things. The paths I think are really... They really dramatize this whole sort of web of pretension and kind of absurdity which is structuring everyone's interaction, isn't it? Yeah. You can't go anywhere straight. You have to walk along these ridiculous... It's a very funny like serpentine path.

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