FilmFanDaveB

Just watched this on UK Channel 4, presented as two episodes of a series. I'm staggered to see it gets a rating here of 5.4 ! The action sequences are so exciting, and the stunts (climbing mountains, sliding down waterfalls, fighting bad guys.... all standard action movie stuff) are delivered in style, and look very believable

Maybe not up to standard of a cinema release? But it makes a great TV series.

Or as someone else put it "overrated, boring and weird"

Isabelle Adjani is compelling and the first 15/20 minutes are really promising - what is this young woman up to, romancing then robbing a string of rich men?

Then it becomes increasingly dull... it doesn't build the tension, it just adds more weird storyline that loses any credibility.

By the end I just didn't care about the two lead characters, so when I didn't fully understand the ending I just shrugged. "Whatever".

In the same year, Adjani appeared in One Deadly Summer, adapted from Sébastien Japrisot's novel. Watch that instead. Great film.

I understand Playtime was an expensive flop which has really only been critically acclaimed in the decades following. I can understand that: it's visually appealing with some very clever setups that obviously took huge amounts of preparation and expense.... but I felt the setups then often don't deliver the goods - a small joke, or a slight dig at the petty annoyances of modern life. There are a few quick sight gags to keep the interest (e.g. Two nuns with intriguing headgear) but long stretches of not-much-at-all-really.

Bit of a disappointment after Jour de Fete and M Hulot's Holiday... obviously mine is a minority view!